Pan Am conducted multiple circumnavigations with the 747SP As previously mentioned, January 30th marked the 37th anniversary ...

Over time as several airlines (looking at you, Pan Am and TWA) went out of business, the 747s found other homes or were ...

Evidently, someone at Boeing did. This is the story of the 747SP. ... Though Pan Am initially placed an order for at least 25 747SP airframes, this was ultimately cut down to a mere ten examples.

Pan Am, the iconic airline founded in 1927, ... Clipper Liberty Bell, a Boeing 747SP-21, broke the commercial round-the-world record with a time of 46 hours and 50 seconds, departing New York City's ...

Pan Am named the aircraft the Clipper Lindbergh and registered it as N536PA. Boeing United Airlines would purchase the plane in 1986, register it as N145UA, and run it until 1995.

The former Pan Am Boeing 747SP that took NASA over 10 years to retrofit for space exploration made the finding that will aid humanity's lunar return.

The Boeing 747SP was built as a stocky version of the original 747-100, with a shortened fuselage, larger tailplane and modified trailing edge flaps. The weight saved by the shorter fuselage ...

Flying from the North Pole to the South Pole in an airliner has been done only three times. Find out how Pan Am Flight 50 pulled it off on a long-range Boeing 747SP back in 1977.

Built with a shorter length and a longer range than the 747-100, the first SP was delivered in 1976 for Pan Am. The last SP was delivered in 1989. SOFIA—tail number N747NA—is one of just a ...

By 1987, Boeing had built and delivered a grand total of 45 747SPs. Over time as several airlines (looking at you, Pan Am and TWA) went out of business, the 747s found other homes or were scrapped.

Find out how Pan Am Flight 50 pulled it off on a long-range Boeing 747SP back in 1977. Flying from the North Pole to the South Pole in an airliner has been done only three times.