Was a member of preliminary design team for this project at Mcdonnell. Worked with the original windtunnel model at the low-speed tunnel at McDonnell to gather aerodynamic data for low and high speed flight characteristics. Was aboard on the second flight of 119. Quite an experience as experienced partial failure of roll control but landed without damage. Spent several weeks at Edwards AFB in flight competition with the Jetstar. Many interesting comments by test pilots for AF. Can't understand how we lost to Lockheed, must have been political. This plane was designed to typical McDonnell fighter g loads and with design specified engines would have been considerably faster with improved range and load carrying ability. The 119 was a beautiful sight to behold in its' original color scheme. It is sad that it just sits and deteriorates. I was in Duxford last year and viewed many WWII airplanes being restored. It would be nice to see the first certified business jet restored at put on display as a first. I still have one of the original manuals we made for military flight test pilots to familarize themselves with flight test characteristics. There was no flight simulator for the 119 at that time. Enjoyed the comments.

I inspected it on the ramp today and ran into one of the pilots that flew it. He has a T-Hanger near ours and the 220. He said it has not flown for 15 years. It looks like it is in good shape. He did indicate that it was sold some time ago but has never been touched by the new owner. He few it to SAT 15 years ago and the engines were in bad shape then with faulty fuel controls. They had to shut the inboards down to land back at ELP because of the burning fuel coming out of the exhaust. They used fire extinguishers to kill the burning fuel after landing. It has not flown since. You can look in the intakes and exhausts and see about a half inch of sand and would need complete overhauls. We have a lot of blowing sand here. I don't think it will be leaving ELP any time soon unless it is trucked out.

When I was a very young pup back in the 60s, maybe earlier, my parents took me to look at the planes on the business side of the airport.I did see this aircraft parked, oh yeah, this was at the Albuquerque airport. She's a real classic aircraft Glad to see this page.

Gentlemen, my father Collin Berenger spent four years restoring this aircraft and making it airworthy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, it flew from there to El Paso December 1985. Its original registration was N22ON and was painted and re-registered N4AZ

I knew the guys who bought this thing in about 1972. I was flying for TWA in SFO and one of our pilots along with his brother bought it and it was in ABQ at the time. I think they flew it once and whatever happened to it after that I do not know.

THE MCDONNELL 220 RESIDES AT EL PASO INTERNATIONAL ON THE RAMP. IT WAS LAST RUN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, AND CAN FLY AGAIN WITH A GOOD ANNUAL / CONDITION INSPECTION. THE JET IS FOR SALE. CONTACT FUEL FRESH INC OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA, OWNER.

Do you have any information on the activities some years ago to get it flying again? Other websites say it did fly and was being restored.