{"id":53326,"date":"2024-05-26T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/active-douglas-dc-8-aircraft-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:00:12","slug":"just-3-left-the-worlds-active-douglas-dc-8s-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=53326","title":{"rendered":"Just 3 Left: The World&#8217;s Active Douglas DC-8s In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/douglas-dc-8\/\">Douglas DC-8<\/a> is one of the most iconic aircraft of the early passenger jet age. It is an early long-range narrow-body <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/douglas-dc8-variants-guide\/\">jetliner built by Douglas Aircraft Company in many different variants<\/a>. While the DC-8&#8217;s days of ferrying passengers worldwide are long over, its days as a freighter are still going. There are at least three DC-8s still operating todaytwo in the Congo and one in the United States.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only three Douglas DC-8s are known to be operating today, and all three are used as freighters.<\/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":[396,397,512,1281,1618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-douglas-dc-8","category-historical-airlines","category-passenger-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53326","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=53326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53327,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53326\/revisions\/53327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}