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Posted by mark watson on 11/30/2007, 7:49 am
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Hi Mark well i have some really great news for you being a fomer Boeing interior designer for Boeing in 1968 when the very first proto type 747 began its construction. First of al your research or the PAN AM data you have stored at your university in Miami needs updating or the some of the data from the PAN AM days was not given to your univirsity for reasons beyond there control I do know for a fact that sensitive files including some aircraft history wasn't to be given out at all to be made public. However i can tell you that Boeing produced this very first airframe and the rego the original rego I might say was N7471PA It was used to travel the globe and to show the public and its buyers this massive aircraft about the future of air travel which would revolutionise the jet age era. N747PA CLIPPER JUAN TRIPPE was in fact another airframe similar to the original porto type 747/100. N747QC was not the first registration given from the very first proto type 747 made. Yes it was sad to see PAN AM end this way but they were the launch airline for the almighty 747 back then which is correct!
N7471PA sits at in a car park lot or spare lot down the road from the Boeing plant where she was born or created back in 1968 then came out of the hangers at Boeing in 1969 for its first maiden flight. N747PA the PAN AM jet became the second jumbo produced by our Boeing plant but was the first actual 747 to make its maiden passenger flight by this american airline.
I admired for years and still today the pan am 747's which some are still active today and others are in millions of scrapped metal parts. However now Clipper Juan Trippe N747PA is being used in asia as a resturant is appaulling and a discrace to see such a big airline airframe being used or this practice as a resturant Aeroposta should have kept this air frame together and shipped her to Boeing who were I might add would have refurbished her to her former glory by there staff and parked it up next to the proto type jumbo here in Seattle. So not all PAN AM records are not available for veiwing or cannot be disclosed at all under the US Attorney General after unexplained incidents with PAN AM's finacial matters and the write off's or air crashes and desolving the company it self which is still under scrutiny and investigation as well as dumping of files and other resourses and airframes which is being investigated. So I hope this answers your questions and answers so i hope this helps you all out and the staff frm PAN AM. Thank you
Mark Watson former Boeing employee 1967-1979
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