Nearly 50yrs old and still flying people about!

[VEGAS]

The old Russian Aircraft still continue to provide active service in a civilian capacity.

I guess comparing it with the UK would be like having our 1-11 and Trident Aircraft still ferrying us about here and there!

Given the chance of flying on one of these old girls I would probably take the bus.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Kosmos-A ... 2b516c535d

[Garry Russell]

There is still a commercial pax DC 6B but sadly the owner died in Nov.

[Chris Trott]

There is the DC-7 operating on a Part 135 certificate (non-sked airline) in Florida now (the Eastern one) and it's doing a pretty good trip this spring out into the Caribbean. There's also the Air Chatham's DC-3 operating scheduled services in Australia, several additional DC-3's in the US and Canada (Buffalo Airways being the largest operator), so it's not the "oldest", but the Tu-134's are certainly among the oldest jets.

Not to mention her younger sister, the Tu-154 is being grounded en-masse due to the recent rash of accidents, so its even more of a statement that any Tu-134 is still flying.

[VEGAS]

Indeed.

The Tu-134 is not codenamed Crusty for nothing!