# 727 at Dupage Airport?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 3, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/727-at-dupage-airport/665215 "2013-08-03T02:04:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/727-at-dupage-airport/665215/1 "2013-08-03T02:04:48Z")

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Visiting Chicago, we were just on 64 near the DuPage airport. My brother thought he recalled a 727 landing there a few years back. Said it sat there for quite a while. Anyone know more about this?

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/727-at-dupage-airport/665215/2 "2013-08-03T02:36:38Z")

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Googling produced [this article](http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-11-25/news/0311250179_1_airport-officials-plane-airport-s-concerns).

Summary: 727 was donated in 2002 by American Airlines to be used in training aviation mechanics. But the plane was too large for any existing hangar, so sat outside and came to be regarded as an eyesore. It was flown away in 2003 - to somewhere.

[This site](http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?location=Chicago+Dupage+Airport+-+KDPA&newsort=2) includes a photo.

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/727-at-dupage-airport/665215/3 "2013-08-03T05:38:58Z")

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The 727’s registration was N848AA. [This page](http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=N848AA) suggests that after departing Dupage it went to Jatayu Airlines of Indonesia.

[This photo](http://www.airliners.net/photo/Boeing-727-223-Adv/0374478/L/&sid=facc5f99935be9546488ec881c590ab4) of it at Dupage may help explain why it became unwelcome there.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/727-at-dupage-airport/665215/4 "2013-08-03T09:11:50Z")

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Why? The most beautiful airliner (IMHO), and in fine shape. Do you mean that it looks like it’s taking off or crash-landing, and do might have momentarily startled someone driving on a nearby road?

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**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/727-at-dupage-airport/665215/5 "2013-08-06T06:12:24Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Why?

Looks neglected and tacky.