One less 747 in the skies

MikeD

MikeD

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9 July, the last flight of N787RR, the Rolls Royce Boeing 747-267B engine test bed aircraft that has made its home at TUS for many years took place. One of a very few remaining flying -200 series 747 classics, she lived her life on the cargo ramp at TUS, across from her Royce Royce flight ops office, and next to her Sierra Pacific 737 parking space neighbors.

For her last flight, she took a short hop, up the road to my home field MZJ, for her final retirement storage and disposition.

A few years back, General Electric retired their 747-121 engine testbed jet N747GE.

Pratt and Whitney still flies their 747SP-J6 C-FPAW, in the engine testbed role.


View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_fCoMwvM4Ws&pp=ygUTUm9sbHMgcm95Y2UgNzQ3LTIwMA%3D%3D
 
Damn it! Missed it by a few weeks. Hopefully I can manage a shot at MZJ before it ends up wherever else. Hopefully a museum. Since my first visit to TUS in 08, it has always been cool to drive a rental car straight to that ramp and see if the 747 is there with the Sierra Pacific classics. It was very cool how close the public could get to that bird in the normal parking spot. I once shot Greenland Air's lone A330-200 start up for a final hop to MZJ as well parked in thar same fence...except tail to the road! The cars had the good sense to stop, it made a mess. One of my favorite airports, will be back in early August most likely.
 
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