Can you identify this aircraft?

July 6, 2011 4:24 AM

I'd like to identify the aircarft in this photograph.

I'd like to identify the aircarft type in this photograph. The Queen of the Netherlands used it today to fly to Finland.

posted by keijo to Travel & Transportation (8 answers total)

Either a DC-9 or a Boeing 717 (which is essentially a modernized DC-9):
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/commercial/dc9-06.html
posted by scolbath at 4:30 AM on July 6, 2011

The shape/engine layout fits a Boeing 717 or McDonnell Douglas DC-9.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 4:30 AM on July 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

More pictures can be found here; if one has the tail number visible that should pin it down.
posted by TedW at 4:31 AM on July 6, 2011

Airliners.net has even more pictures which are identified as a Fokker 70.
posted by TedW at 4:34 AM on July 6, 2011 [1 favorite]

The registration is PH-KBX; PH for the Netherlands and KBX for 'Koningin BeatriX' or 'Queen Beatrix'. OK, I'm done.
posted by TedW at 4:37 AM on July 6, 2011 [2 favorites]

Here's a page about it at the site of the Dutch royal house.
posted by gubo at 4:42 AM on July 6, 2011

Indeed not a DC 9/Boeing 717. The upper tail curve is rounder in this one, and the number of windows until the first emergency door matches the Fokker 70.
posted by Namlit at 5:50 AM on July 6, 2011

Nicely done, TedW -- I knew it wasn't an DC-9/MD-80/717, but I couldn't figure out what it was -- I'm thinking "what, did EMB/BOM build a bigger RJ?"
posted by eriko at 5:59 AM on July 7, 2011