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N721PA Boeing 707-321 Pan-American World Airways JFK 09JUL70

Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 19-Sep-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 05-Sep-25.

 

Named: "Jet Clipper Splendid". Fleet No: "721".

 

Quite an early turbojet engined Boeing 707 (Line No: 71), N721PA was delivered to Pan-Am in Oct-59, It was retired by Pan-Am after 11 years in service and stored at Wichita, KS, USA, in Sep-70 (just 2 months after this photo was taken).

 

It was sold to Dan-Air London in Jan-71 and re-registered G-AYSL 2 months later. It was wet leased to British Airways between Jul/Nov-78 and to British Airtours for the summer season between May/Oct-79.

 

On it's return to Dan-Air it was stored at their Engineering base at Lasham, UK. It was sold to International Air Leases Inc the following month as N80703 although it remained stored at Lasham. Just over 3 years later, in Jan-83, it was sold to KIVU Cargo for spares and was broken up at Lasham the following month.

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Uploaded on September 5, 2025
Taken on July 9, 1970