On This Day 18th June 1993.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left across a large expanse of grey concrete apron. The plane is largely white, with a blue stripe coming from the nose, getting wider as it sweeps along the body, eventually ending up in the bottom of the tail, over a thin green and blue stripe just above the grey belly. There is a large, billboard-style, grey "MD" and black "90" on the side of the forward fuselage, with much smaller "McDonnell Douglas" titles on the upper fuselage just aft of that. The black registration "N901DC" is on the upper rear fuselage, just ahead of the engine pods. The white engine pods have large, blue "V2500" text, above smaller, green "IAE" text. The white tail has black "MD90" text above a light blue triangle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with strips of grass separating taxiways and a runway in the background, and more grass beyond that leading up to trees in the distance.
N901DC, McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 prototype, in the manufacturers colours, doing a series of test/demonstration flights for some local airlines at Manchester Airport, 18th June 1993.
None of these airlines placed orders for this type, and in fact one placed large orders for Airbus A320’s just a couple of weeks later, even though they already operated a fleet entirely made up of MD83’s.

N901DC, McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 prototype, in the manufacturers colours, doing a series of test/demonstration flights for some local airlines at Manchester Airport, 18th June 1993.

None of these airlines placed orders for this type, and in fact one placed large orders for Airbus A320’s just a couple of weeks later, even though they already operated a fleet entirely made up of MD83’s.

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