Pan Am declared bankruptcy following stresses caused by the 1973 oil crisis, and the lawsuits that followed the bombing of ...

A Pan Am Boeing 747 sits at Heathrow Airport in London in 1970. AP Military personnel watch as Air Force One, with President Donald Trump aboard, prepares to depart at Andrews Air Force Base in 2017.

This story was first published in January 2018. It's been updated after reports that Boeing will no longer build 747 jumbo jets. On August 3, 1970, Pan Am 747 “Clipper Victor,” lifted off from ...

The Boeing 747 first flew for the now-defunct Pan Am and TWA. After 53 years of non-stop production, ... United States, and was specially built in 1967 for the Boeing 747 model.

Join the final Boeing 747 delivery ceremony at the Everett factory, ... grandson of Pan Am’s founder Juan Trippe, ... covering every model from the 747-100 to the 747-8F.

The Boeing 747, pictured after its ... flying from New York to London for Pan Am. Boeing’s new “jumbo jet” was quickly crowned as the “Queen ... This gave the new model the lowest cost-per ...

The first Boeing 747 rolls off the production line with Pan Am markings and dwarves a Pan Am Boeing ... More 707-321B sitting in the foreground, Everett, Washington, March 5, 1969. (Photo by ...

Boeing built its last-ever 747 in December. It's the end of an aviation era that began with Pan Am's first commercial flight of the jumbo jet in 1970. Accessibility links.