Does anyone knows what type of plane is this ?

Question

It looks like an Airbus, but I'm not sure. I want to know the model / type of this plane.

It has a propellor on the back... wasn't suppose to be APU there ?

Here's a foto: http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj178/axnpictures/plane.jpg

Answer 1

It is a DC-10, probably the 10 or 15 series.

The difference between its cousin the MD-11 is that the MD-11 has three sets of main landing gears, one on the fuselage too in addition to the two from the wings. Its clearly missing in your picture. The DC-30s and 40s too had the three sets of main landing gear configuration.  

So its gotta be a DC-10 or DC-15

(In case there is a confusion *main* landing gear doesnt include the nosewheel)

Answer 2

If you see a propeller on the back, you've got better eyes than this old hag!

The airplane is a DC-10 or MD-11.

Answer 3

McDonald Douglas DC10

Answer 4

I am an aviation enthusiast. Iam quite sure it is not an Airbus. It must be Mcdonnel Douglas-11 or Boeing 727.The angle of the photo restricts me to decide the correct one of the two I mentioned.To my knowledge the former must be right.

Answer 5

dude on top is right

Answer 6

It is a DC-10-10.  

It is the only plane that has the engine mounted up in the tail and only three landing gears.  The DC-10-30, DC-10-40, and MD-11 all have the fourth center main gear.

Answer 7

Douglas DC10

Answer 8

That is a Douglas DC-10

Answer 9

Cricket (as well as all the others who said DC-10) got it right.

Western had the earlier model DC-10s with the lower gross weights (so did the launch customers, American and United, when that was the only variant that Douglas was building at the time.)

Answer 10

The pictures doesn't show the full wings.

if the wing has a winglet, its md11 otherwise its dc10

Answer 11

DC-10

Answer 12

DC-10.  

You can tell the difference between an DC-10 and an MD-11 by the lack of the center main gear (MD-11 has it, DC-10 doesn't.)    I have put 2 pictures to show this  And actually, Mark, Douglas doesn't make the DC-10.  Boeing does, and it is now classified as the MD-10

I don't see a propeller in that picture, but if there was one it would probably be the ram air turbine deployed.

Answer 13

It does not look like an Airbus.



It looks like a Douglas DC-10.

McDonnel-Douglas didn't make the DC-10.

McDonnel-Douglas made the MD-11.

It has a propeller on the back?

Answer 14

The aircraft in your photo belongs to Western Airlines, which narrows it down to the DC10-10.  

It does not have the center landing gear, so it isn't the DC10-30.

It could not have been an MD11, because Western Airlines never had MD11's.  

MD11's were not in commercial service until several years after Western merged with Delta Airlines in 1987.