{"id":252812,"date":"2025-07-17T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/active-dc-8s-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T08:00:16","slug":"just-3-left-the-worlds-active-douglas-dc-8s-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=252812","title":{"rendered":"Just 3 Left: The World&#8217;s Active Douglas DC-8s In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Douglas DC-8, often referred to as the McDonnell <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"67962\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/douglas\/\"  >Douglas<\/a><\/span> DC-8, is an early long-range commercial aircraft. The narrowbody aircraft was one of the first jet-powered aircraft to be used for commercial service. Originally, it was designed to be used as an aerial refueling tanker aircraft by the United States Air Force. However, after it lost the competition to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> KC-135 Stratotanker, Douglas decided to market the aircraft for civil use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 550 total Douglas DC-8s have been produced since the 1950s.<\/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":[396,1722,512,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-douglas","category-douglas-dc-8","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252812","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=252812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252813,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252812\/revisions\/252813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}