1970 Boeing 747-121, c/n 19653/30, N749PA, “749”, Clipper Intrepid, PanAm (Pan American World Airways Inc.), New York, New York, USA; powered by four 46,500-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7A high-bypass turbofan engines; crew of three (pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer), seating configuration (370 passengers), long-range, wide-body, double-deck airliner; built by The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, USA, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Renton, Washington at Everett, Washington; first flight on March 21, 1970; delivered to PanAm on April 10, 1970; renamed Clipper Dashing Wave; withdrawn from use; stored at Pinal Airpark (MZJ), Marana, Arizona, USA in December 1991; scrapped in 1994.
London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England sometime in December 1974.
My father Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg travelled on a family emergency to see his mother in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, flying aboard an Air Canada Boeing 747-133, non-stop from Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Sea Island, Richmond, B.C., Canada to London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England, and then onward (Lufthansa?) to Flughafen Stuttgart (STR), Stuttgart-Echterdingen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany.
[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319]
© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, December 1974 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, May 2012
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