N734PA_1973ca_MUC_1290_HS

 

Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

ca. early 1970s

 

N734PA (2) "Clipper Flying Cloud"

Boeing 747-121

19641 / 7

Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)

 

Note: N734PA (1) was Douglas DC-7CF c/n 44876/673 flying for Pan Am from February 1956 to 1964.

 

N734PA in its initial colours is lined up for take-off on Riem’s runway 25 during the time of dandelion bloom (late April/early May) ca. 1973 or 1974. Pan Am had started daily MUC-FRA-JFK services in summer 1972.

 

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour:

Delivered to Pan Am as N734PA in 1969. To GATX/Airlog as N491GX in 1991 and converted to a freighter. To Federal Express in 1992 then to UPS as N691UP in 1993. Withdrawn from use at Goodyear, AZ in 2002 and scrapped.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=98353

 

This airframe as N651UP with UPS at HKG ca. 1996 (all white):

www.flickr.com/photos/darylchapman/8202209042

 

N651UP with UPS at HKG in March 1998 (full colours):

www.airhistory.net/photo/577140/N691UP

 

N691UP being parted out at GYR in January 2002:

www.visitingphx.com/n691up.jpg

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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