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    Airframe Family: Boeing B747 / C-25 / C-33 / E-4 / AL-1
    Latest Model:747SP-21
    Construction Number:21441
    Last Civil Registration:N747NA
    Compressed ID:Boeing 747SP-21 cn 21441 cr N747NA
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1977

    Constructed as a 747SP-21.

    6 May 1977

    To Pan American World Airways with new c/r N536PA.
    Operated with markings: Clipper Lindbergh

    13 February 1986

    To United Airlines with new c/r N145UA.

    26 November 1997

    To NASA (Sofia Program) keeping c/r N145UA.

    By 1998

    To NASA-Neil A. Armstrong Flight Center with new c/r N747NA.

    14 May 2018


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: N747NA Boeing 747SP of NASA - at Hannover, Germany during post maintenance flight

    December 2022

    Last flight.
    From Palmdale to Tucson.

    December 2022

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    24 June 2023


    Photographer: Cassidy Cristello
    Notes: Awaiting display at Pima, her telescope was removed to be placed on display in Germany.
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