Typed caption: "READY TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF U.S. JET TRANSPORTATION . . . is this Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 . . . a sistership to the 'Clipper America,' the aircraft which inaugurated regular scheduled jet transport service from New York to Paris. The reenactment flight on Oct. 26, 1983 will carry several passengers who were aboard the inaugural flight 25 years ago. The 707 sistership is shown here at Pan Am's Worldport Terminal, JFK International Airport in New York. In the background is another famous Pan Am aircraft, the 'Jet Clipper Young America,' a Boeing 747SP (Special Performance) which flew around the world twice, in 1976 and 1977, in record-setting time and distance flights. The records of this 747SP, Registration No. N533PA, still stand today." Creation Datecirca 1980sSubjectBoeing Model 707 FamilyCommuter aircraftPan American World Airways, Inc.Boeing Model 747SP (747-100SP)John F. Kennedy International AirportPlaceNew York (N.Y.)New York (State)United StatesExtent1 photograph : print, black and white ; 10 x 8 in.Original Formatphotographic printsBibliographic CitationThe Commercial Airlines Collection/The Museum of FlightRightsIn copyright
Pan American World Airways, Inc., [Boeing Model 707 and Boeing Model 747SP], [2018-00-00-23_image_187]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 09/02/2026, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/27632