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Colgan Air retires its last Beech 1900D
March 6, 2009 — Beech, Beech 1900C, Beech 1900D, Colgan Air (1st), Colgan Air (2nd), Jay Selman, Manassas, MNZ, N1900J, New York Air, New York Air Connection, UC-43
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Colgan Air (2nd) (Manassas) retired its last two Beech (Raytheon) 1900Ds in February. The company started operating the Beech 1900C in August 1992. Besides its own operations it operated the two types as a Continental Connection and US Airways Express carrier. Today Colgan operates 14 Bombardier DHC-8-402s (Q400s) for Continental and 34 SAAB 340Bs for Continental, United and US Airways. Six SAABs were retired in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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Of course you know that the picture is MSN UA-3 which is a A model, NOT UC-43.
The unique feature of this aircraft was that is was a late prototype and featured two airstair doors (no cargo door)
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June 22, 2009
Yes I do. We were trying to show an historic piece.
