Danish Air Transport (DAT), the Copenhagen-based airline that operates a number of scheduled operations and provides ACMI/charter services to other companies, announced it is promoting a farewell flight for its last McDonnell Douglas MD-83, the «Mad Dog», on October the 16th.
The event was announced in the airline’s Facebook page. The aircraft, OY-RUE, will be flown by the airline’s CEO, Jesper Rungholm, himself an aviation aficionado, on a surprise 90-minute tour.
https://www.facebook.com/flydat/posts/1700427980156416
Tickets for the event cost DKK1,990 – EUR267.62 as of September 25 – and include a safety card, a t-shirt and snacks during the flight.
This is one of the last opportunities to fly the «Mad Dog» in Europe. According to Planespotters.net, the remaining operators of the MD-80 family in the Old Continent are ALK Airlines and European Air Charter, from Bulgaria, AMAC Aerospace, from Switzerland, and Bravo Airways, from Ukraine.
OY-RUE, more specifically, became a very popular aircraft among planespotters around the world when it was leased by Coca-Cola to carry the trophy of the Football World Cup of in 2014, sporting commemorative titles. To this day, Uniform-Echo sports the basic colors of that event.
Also according to Planespotters.net, the airframe was originally delivered to the UK’s Airtours International Airways in November 1990, with serial number 49936. Over the years, it flew passengers for Turkey’s Sunways, AOM French Airlines, Spanair and Romania’s Medallion Air, before being delivered to DAT in January 2010.
