I think that the Mad Dogs only exist as freighters (~or their derivative KC-10 tankers~-Edited to correct that they retired last year) these days. I think the last pax service for any of them was over a decade ago.

And air freight just gets a lot less public attention, I think they are going to keep flying them if they don't get grounded.

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joleyj 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The airforce retired the KC-10 in 2021.

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buildsjets 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The KC-10 went out of service last year. None are operating.

	▲	loeg 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, but DC-10 based tankers for wildfire fighting were still flying until the recent grounding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-10_Air_Tanker (Blancolirio points out that the DC-10 tanker is what they modernized to relatively recently -- before that they were flying even more dangerous WW2 airframes for firefighting.)
	▲	mandevil 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Damnit, I knew that! Just forgot it in the moment.

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inferiorhuman 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of the DC-10s in service in the US are used for fire fighting.

	▲	dingaling 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And with Omega Air, for contracted air refuelling https://www.omegaairrefueling.com/
	▲	mandevil 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yes, but there are many MD-11's still flying as freighters. There are four fire-fighting DC10's out of ~8 still flying, but there are 25 Mad Dogs (MD-11) at UPS, 38 with FedEx, and Western Global has 4, so there are plenty of MD-11F's around.
	▲	dreamcompiler 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Here are 4 of them. All grounded now. https://www.10tanker.com/gallery