Posted: 7/7/2014 10:48:43 AM EDT
Looks like it would be a rocketship.
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I think Iran Air is the only commercial operator of the SP. Along with a couple of private operators and a couple of government operators, all in the Middle East. There seems to always be 1 or two at LAS, although I can't remember the registration. They are private btw. 
VP-BLK, 1979 Boeing 747SP-31 C/N 21961/415,. Las Vegas Sands Corp. - Las Vegas, Nevada / 1979 Boeing 747SP-31 
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There is one at Akron Canton Regional most times. It's stored there and flown to Cleveland Hopkins to top off the fuel then off to wherever. Owned by a televangelist and used for "missionary work". It's a cool looking plane. Which televevangeliar owns a 747? 
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There is one at Akron Canton Regional most times. It's stored there and flown to Cleveland Hopkins to top off the fuel then off to wherever. Owned by a televangelist and used for "missionary work". It's a cool looking plane. Which televevangeliar owns a 747? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Angley maybe |
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There is one at Akron Canton Regional most times. It's stored there and flown to Cleveland Hopkins to top off the fuel then off to wherever. Owned by a televangelist and used for "missionary work". It's a cool looking plane. Which televevangeliar owns a 747? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Angley maybe That's correct. It had a hard landing a blew some tires a couple years ago. I think they call it Angel 1 or something like that. |
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There seems to always be 1 or two at LAS, although I can't remember the registration. They are private btw. http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/135/135031.jpg VP-BLK, 1979 Boeing 747SP-31 C/N 21961/415,. Las Vegas Sands Corp. - Las Vegas, Nevada / 1979 Boeing 747SP-31 http://img1.jetphotos.net:8080/img/2/2/6/7/55178_1262923762.jpg Quoted:
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I think Iran Air is the only commercial operator of the SP. Along with a couple of private operators and a couple of government operators, all in the Middle East. There seems to always be 1 or two at LAS, although I can't remember the registration. They are private btw. http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/135/135031.jpg VP-BLK, 1979 Boeing 747SP-31 C/N 21961/415,. Las Vegas Sands Corp. - Las Vegas, Nevada / 1979 Boeing 747SP-31 http://img1.jetphotos.net:8080/img/2/2/6/7/55178_1262923762.jpg That would be Sheldon Addelson's birds. They were for sale a couple of years ago, not much interest obviously. They will be in the desert about the same time as he dies. He has a very interesting flight department. |
| Qantas used to fly them out of SFO when I was a kid. They made black smoke from the water injection used at high gross weight takeoffs. My uncle was a United lead mechanic at the maintenance base for 37 years after getting out of the air force. The 747 SPs were his favorite to watch take off. |
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I got to fly "on" a World Airways 747-SP back in the mid 80's. Very little noticeable difference between it and a -200 IMHO. Maybe flight crew would see it differently, but I doubt it. Still was a really cool experience for an aviation nut like myself. As a flight engineer instructor and check airman on the B747-100/200 early in my career at Northwest we learned a lot about the different variants of the B747, their history and users. The -SP was developed to extend the range of the 747-100 airplanes to make NYC to Tokyo non-stop. Shortly after it came out, higher thrust and lower fuel burning engines were certified making the need for the -SP moot. Very few were sold and only a handful survive. The old industry joke was that United liked the -SP so much, they had them stretched to full sized versions. 
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