{"id":403408,"date":"2026-04-11T08:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-retires-oldest-widebody-36-years-150000-flight-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:58:56","slug":"delta-air-lines-retires-its-oldest-widebody-after-nearly-36-years-150000-flight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403408","title":{"rendered":"Delta Air Lines Retires Its Oldest Widebody After Nearly 36 Years &amp; 150,000 Flight Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> has bid adieu (goodbye) to its oldest widebody <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739371\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/767-300er\/\"  >Boeing 767-300ER<\/a><\/span> aircraft. <strong>N171DN <\/strong>flew its final flight on Friday, April 10, from Atlanta to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255014\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/birmingham\/\"  >Birmingham<\/a><\/span>, where it will be destined for the scrap heap. This widebody has accumulated more than 150,000 flight hours, and according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/348704483442978\/permalink\/1293903855589698\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >one viewer on Facebook<\/a>, it had just enough for its ferry flight to the scrapper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft has operated continuously for the airline since the 1990&#8217;s.<\/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":[396,476,398,13177,565,3509,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-767-300","category-delta-air-lines","category-retirement","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403408","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=403408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403589,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403408\/revisions\/403589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}