QF B743's hours/cycles

[Tom PER]

Hi Folks,

Does anyone on here know roughly how many hours and cycles the recently retired QF 743's had on them?

Be interesting to find out as I did hear that their B744's were well ahead in the hours compared to the older B743's.

rgds

Tom/PER

[Chris Roope]

High 80000's for hours, and 10000-15000 cycles.
The older 400's are close on hours but a little further behind on cycles.

[Bill S]

They still have plenty of time left then - I flew a 747-146 once that had 115,000 hours.

[Mick F]

That's actually not that many cycles, I thought it would have been more.

We have a 2000 model B200 (ok, I know, completely different aircraft doing completely different ops) with around 10,500hrs, and 12,100 cycles on it.

Mick

[Adam P.]

Not many of those cycles would have lasted 14 hours though, Floody!

[Mick F]

Well that's true. We'd be out of coffee by then, .

Mick

[Bob C]

Hi Tom

I asked the same question on 2 January under the thread "Final B747-300 flights" but didn't receive any meaningful replies.

A quick check of my files revealed that B747-238 VH-ECB had 93,021 hours and 19,876 cycles when it was retired in 2002 and other -238s had similar hours/cycles. So I guess the -338s would be about the same.

I wonder if a QF aircraft has made the 100,000 hour mark ?

[Sarah C]

Official count from QF:

"Since then, the fleet has accumulated more than 524,000 hours and more than 97,000 cycles."