Pan Am (ex National) Boeing 727-235 N4734 seen on finals to runway 27L at London Heathrow
One of Pan Am's fleet of stretched Boeing 727-200s is seen here in the evening sunshine, approaching runway 27L at London Heathrow. The stretched Pan Am Boeing 727s were quite rare visitors in the early 1980s, but became more common when the National Airlines fleet was assimilated. Sometime in the 1980s, Pan Am went all Large Logo :)
Pan Am operated a large fleet of some 150 Boeing 727s, including 46 short-bodied Series 100s (19 ex-National Airlines), and 105 Series 200s (24 ex-National Airlines), between 1965 and the airline's collapse in 1991.
Memories of a mis-spent youth 😎
By 1986, when I took this shot, I had been making regular forays to my home airport of London Heathrow for ten years... and in that time, my photography had developed from using a primitive Kodak Instamatic (1976-77), through a short period with a borrowed secondhand 35mm (1978-79) to, firstly a secondhand Zenith E + 300mm telephoto lens (1979-80), via a temporary replacement Zenith EM (1980), to my first brand-new camera - a shiny black-bodied "Moscow Olympics" special Zenith TTL, with which I took this photo :)
The summer of '86 - aged 24, and with a new job working in urban ecology, I had less spare time to visit my old haunt of Heathrow airport. However, after getting my old negatives scanned, it appears that I did make a few forays with my Zenith TTL and 300mm telephoto lens. By this time, I had abandoned Kodachrome 64 as a tad too expensive, and was using Kodacolor VR100 or 200 print film.
So over a relatively short period, one August evening in 1986, I shot 20 frames and managed to capture this huge variety of aircraft and airlines:
3x Tu-154s Aeroflot (2 frames), Malev & Balkan
3x B707s TAP cargo, NAC cargo, TMA cargo (2 frames)
2x B727s Pan Am & VIP
2x Airbus Egyptair A300, Swissair A310
1x B737 Aer Lingus
1x B747 JAL (2 frames)
1x TriStar BA
1x BAC1-11 Dan Air
1x F-27 Luxair
1x Saab 340 Manx
1x G2 VIP
Gives you an idea of what Heathrow was like back in the good old 1980s 😎
N4734 c/n 19454 - Boeing 727-235 was originally delivered to National Airlines in Jan 1968. The aircraft flew with the airline until 1980, when National was bought by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), and the aircraft was named 'Clipper Charmer' but retained the National registration. As with a number of the ex-National 727-200s, the aircraft was used on the IGS rotation between the United States and Germany for use on the Internal German Services (IGS) as seen here. After flying with Pan Am for another 11 years, the aircraft was sold to General Electric Credit Corporation - a huge leasing corporation. The aircraft was stored and finally broken up in 1995 at Amarillo, Texas.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor VR200 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
Pan Am (ex National) Boeing 727-235 N4734 seen on finals to runway 27L at London Heathrow
One of Pan Am's fleet of stretched Boeing 727-200s is seen here in the evening sunshine, approaching runway 27L at London Heathrow. The stretched Pan Am Boeing 727s were quite rare visitors in the early 1980s, but became more common when the National Airlines fleet was assimilated. Sometime in the 1980s, Pan Am went all Large Logo :)
Pan Am operated a large fleet of some 150 Boeing 727s, including 46 short-bodied Series 100s (19 ex-National Airlines), and 105 Series 200s (24 ex-National Airlines), between 1965 and the airline's collapse in 1991.
Memories of a mis-spent youth 😎
By 1986, when I took this shot, I had been making regular forays to my home airport of London Heathrow for ten years... and in that time, my photography had developed from using a primitive Kodak Instamatic (1976-77), through a short period with a borrowed secondhand 35mm (1978-79) to, firstly a secondhand Zenith E + 300mm telephoto lens (1979-80), via a temporary replacement Zenith EM (1980), to my first brand-new camera - a shiny black-bodied "Moscow Olympics" special Zenith TTL, with which I took this photo :)
The summer of '86 - aged 24, and with a new job working in urban ecology, I had less spare time to visit my old haunt of Heathrow airport. However, after getting my old negatives scanned, it appears that I did make a few forays with my Zenith TTL and 300mm telephoto lens. By this time, I had abandoned Kodachrome 64 as a tad too expensive, and was using Kodacolor VR100 or 200 print film.
So over a relatively short period, one August evening in 1986, I shot 20 frames and managed to capture this huge variety of aircraft and airlines:
3x Tu-154s Aeroflot (2 frames), Malev & Balkan
3x B707s TAP cargo, NAC cargo, TMA cargo (2 frames)
2x B727s Pan Am & VIP
2x Airbus Egyptair A300, Swissair A310
1x B737 Aer Lingus
1x B747 JAL (2 frames)
1x TriStar BA
1x BAC1-11 Dan Air
1x F-27 Luxair
1x Saab 340 Manx
1x G2 VIP
Gives you an idea of what Heathrow was like back in the good old 1980s 😎
N4734 c/n 19454 - Boeing 727-235 was originally delivered to National Airlines in Jan 1968. The aircraft flew with the airline until 1980, when National was bought by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), and the aircraft was named 'Clipper Charmer' but retained the National registration. As with a number of the ex-National 727-200s, the aircraft was used on the IGS rotation between the United States and Germany for use on the Internal German Services (IGS) as seen here. After flying with Pan Am for another 11 years, the aircraft was sold to General Electric Credit Corporation - a huge leasing corporation. The aircraft was stored and finally broken up in 1995 at Amarillo, Texas.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor VR200 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/