1985 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49385/1244, N429NV, “429”, Allegiant Air (Allegiant Travel Company), Enterprise, near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; powered by two 21,000-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration Y166, medium-range, mid-size, narrow-body airliner; built by McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Douglas Aircraft Co. Division, Long Beach, California at Long Beach, California; built as MD-82; first flight on December 11, 1985; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA), Stockholm, Sweden, seating configuration Y156, on December 20, 1985; SE-DFT, Spanair (Spanair SA), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain on June 3, 1991, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on October 1, 1991, returned; SE-DFT, Spanair, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona, Catalunya on June 3, 1992, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFT, Nordic East Airways, Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on November 29, 1992, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on October 31, 1994, returned; LN-ROR, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration CY150, on December 13, 1999, re-registered; stored in April 2009; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines (SAS Scandinavian System AB), Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration CY150, on December 16, 2009, re-registered; ferried Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (OSL), Gardermoen, Ullensaker, Norway–Keflavík International Airport (KEF), Keflavík, Iceland–Bangor International Airport (BGR), Bangor, Maine–Kingman Airport (IGM), Mohave County, Arizona on March 10 & 11, 2010; delivered to Allegiant Air on March 16, 2010; converted to MD-83; N429NV, “429”, Allegiant Air, Enterprise, near Las Vegas, Nevada on November 15, 2010, re-certificated.
Flight 212 just arriving (late) from Bellingham, approaching Gate 5, Palm Springs International Airport (PSP), Palm Springs, California on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm.
Our Flight 213, non-stop Palm Springs–Bellingham, scheduled 6:35 pm departure, 9:25 pm arrival, in the midst of refuelling while the checked baggage of Flight 212 is unloaded, Gate 5 at 6:19 pm.
Again, my wife and I were some of the last passengers to board as we were part of Open Seating. And again, we were fortunate to locate two seats together, row 18, myself in seat D and my wife in seat E. Cabin crew were one female Flight Attendant and three male Flight Attendants. We departed at 7:02 pm. The flight was uneventful.
[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]
© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2012
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