1986 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49424/1284, N420NV, “420”, Allegiant Air

1986 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49424/1284, N420NV, “420”, 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 June 12, 1986; SE-DFX, Ring Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA), Stockholm, Sweden, seating configuration Y156, on June 20, 1986; SE-DFX, Nordic East Airways, Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on January 5, 1992, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFX, Scanair, Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA), Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on October 2, 1992, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFX, Ring Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on October 31, 1992, returned; N840RA, Reno Air, Reno, Nevada on February 18, 1993, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFX, Ring Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on February 15, 1998, returned; LN-ROU, Ring Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration CY150, on December 10, 1999, re-registered; LN-ROU, Snowflake (Scandinavian Airlines System), Stockholm on March 15, 2004, transferred; LN-ROU, Ring Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines (SAS Scandinavian Airlines Norge AS), Fornebu, Baerum, near Oslo, Norway, seating configuration CY150, on January 26, 2007, returned; SE-DFX, Ring Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines (SAS Scandinavian System AB), Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration CY150, on December 21, 2009, re-registered; stored at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN), Sigtuna Municipality, near Märsta, Sweden in December 2009; ferried Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN), Sigtuna, near Märsta–Akureyri Airport (AEY), Akureyri, Iceland–Bangor International Airport (BGR), Bangor, Maine–Kingman Airport (IGM), Mohave County, Arizona on April 27 & 28, 2010; delivered to Allegiant Air on April 30, 2010; converted to MD-83; N420NV, “420”, Allegiant Air, Enterprise, near Las Vegas, Nevada on July 17, 2010, re-certificated.

Boarding Flight 210, non-stop Bellingham–Palm Springs, scheduled 9:00 am departure, 11:45 am arrival, Bellingham International Airport (BLI), Bellingham, Washington on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 8:48 am.

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.

1986 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49424/1284, N420NV, “420”, 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.

My wife and I were some of the last passengers to board as we were part of Open Seating. We were fortunate to locate two seats together, row 17, my wife in seat D and myself in seat E. Crew were a Captain Miller and a First Officer Lowrie plus three female Flight Attendants and one male Flight Attendant. We departed at 9:13 am in cloud and light rain. Estimated flight time was 2 hours 29 minutes. We reached 33,000 feet altitude. We arrived at 11:50 am with wind gusts and overcast skies at 61°F, after experiencing some turbulence during the last half hour of flight and a bone-jarring, rough ride bouncing up and down, swaying between port and starboard, in the last ten minutes of our descent, landing somewhat hard. I exclaimed with a “Let’s do the WestJet thing!” and applauded with hand clapping. Some fellow passengers then followed suit.

1986 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49424/1284, N420NV, “420”, 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.

At Gate 5, Palm Springs International Airport (PSP), Palm Springs, California on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 12:07 pm.

Spring Break in Palm Springs, California, USA from Saturday, March 17 to Saturday, March 24, 2012.

[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