In article ,
(Mike Marron) wrote:

Ron Parsons wrote:

Back in the '60s, SAC was very proud of one of the Looking Glass
KC-135's that was the high time aircraft in the USAF at something
like
2700 hrs. That was about 75% of the time a 707 would get in one year.

Move forward to the 90's and the AA 767's going from DFW to Europe
and
back daily were averaging about 20 hours aloft out of each 24.

On a slightly different tack, I recall a 727 with about 27000 hrs
total
and one of the three engines was original and had never been off the
airframe.

At least it could still remain aloft on its other two engines if that
one old JT-8D engine happened to quit. Some of the Cessna 210's that
I've hauled bags of checks in had more than 14,000 hrs. logged on the
airframe
and engine failures at the most inopportune time were almost to be
expected.
I seriously considered purchasing NVG's so I could see where I was
going
when the engine quit at night and still have various dirt roads and
cow pastures programmed into my GPS that were to be used in the event
of
an engine failure.

Actually the other two were like 26,000 and 22,000 but had been moved
from one a/c to another at some point.

--
Ron