MD 900 Explorer    msn: 900-00010

# 010 / XA-FAA, captured at Cuernavaca, Mexico
Photo: André Dupont, Mexico Air Spotters M.A.S, MMCB, 31 May 2012.

# 010 / N555WA, On static display at the 2007 HeliTech at Duxford, United Kingdom.
The MD Explorer has been modified with an elongated tailboom and has been repainted.

Photo: Jan Makkus, EGSU, 3 October 2007.

# 010 / N555WA, Stobart Air, parked at Shoreham, United Kingdom.

Photo: Martin Stephen, EGKA, 26 May 2007.

# 010 / N555WA, WA Developments, pictured near Port Aventura, España.

Photo: Antonio Doblado Escoda, 24 March 2006.

# 010 / N9208V, showing its blue livery at Shoreham, United Kingdom.

Photo: Andrew Scott, Shoreham, EGKA, 17 July 2004.

# 010 / N9208V after a repaint at Shoreham, UK.

Photo: Colin J.Pratt-Hooson, EGKA, 17 January 2002.

# 010 / N9208V, pictured on a rainy static at Gilze-Rijen Airshow,
 while on a European demo tour.

Photo: Jan Makkus, EHGR, July 1997.

# 010 / N9208V, McDonnell Douglas Helicopters.

Photo: McDonnell Douglas.

 Airframe History:
 Date: Tailnumber: Owner / Operator:
 DEC 1993  N9208V McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company,
 Mesa, Arizona
 xxx 1996  N9208V Demonstration tour,
 Europe
 xxx 1997  N9208V Demonstration tour,
 Europe
 MAR 1999  9010  US Coast Guard, HITRON 10,
 [leased]
 xxx 2000  N9208V Helicopteros Pacheco,
 Venezuela [leased]
 xxx 2002  N9208V Demonstration tour,
 United Kingdom
 DEC 2002  N9208V Cumbrian Seafoods Inc,
 United Kingdom
 DEC 2005  N555WA WA Helicopters Inc,
 Cumbria, United Kingdom
 AUG 2007  N555WA N555WA Inc,
 Wilmington, Delaware
 MAY 2009  N555WA for sale by Eastern Pacific Helicopters,
 United Kingdom. [ttaf:2950]
 MAR 2012  N555WA Eastern Atlantic Helicopters Inc,
 Wilmington, Delaware
 APR 2012  N555WA regi canx,
 exported to Mexico
 MAY 2012  XA-FAA .....,
 Mexico
 MAY 2012  XA-FAA for sale by Gregorio Juarez,
 Mexico. [ttaf:2978] & [por]
 SEP 2016  XA-FAA for sale by Southern Cross Aviation,
 Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [ttaf:2977]
 MAR 2017  XA-FAA for sale by Trinity Aviation,
 Georgetown, Texas
 [ttaf:3030] & [$ 1.200.000,==]
 DEC 2017  XA-FAA airframe substantially damaged,
 Mexico
 FEB 2020  N883ND Dodson International Parts Inc,
 Rantoul, Kansas
     

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