{"id":188865,"date":"2025-03-21T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-boeing-737-still-flying\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:00:13","slug":"this-is-the-oldest-boeing-737-still-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=188865","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Oldest Boeing 737 Still Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s usual to see some of the world&#8217;s largest airlines welcoming new aircraft almost weekly, it&#8217;s also another thing to operate the world&#8217;s oldest <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-active-boeing-737-400s\/\" >Boeing 737<\/a> aircraft. The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/indian-air-force-fleet-guide\/\" >Indian Air Force<\/a> (IAF), part of the Indian Armed Forces, owns just that. The IAF&#8217;s Boeing 737-200 (2A8) took its first flight on December 23, 1970, and is 54.2 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic Boeing 737-200, after 22 years with Indian Airlines, was then acquired by the Indian Air Force on July 29, 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,3353,13240,1970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-200","category-commercial-aviation","category-oldest-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188866,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188865\/revisions\/188866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}