Ex-Pan Am 707-321B, N885PA - a photo on Flickriver

            This 707-321B, c/n 20024, was originally delivered to Pan American World Airways as N885PA. It spent its entire service life with Pan Am. 

In the early 1980s, Boeing and the US Air Force purchased a large number of retired Boeing 707-series airliners. The engine pylons and JT3D turbofan engines were removed from these aircraft, refurbished and used to replace the J57 turbojets on approximately 100 KC-135A Stratotankers.

Along with some other changes, this program produced KC-135E tankers that were operated by USAF Reserve and National Guard units from the mid-1980s until the last KC-135E was withdrawn from service in 2009. 

The program was economical and very successful, providing Reserve and National Guard units with aircraft that had significantly reduced noise and emissions. Many of those units were based at civilian airports, and the turbofan conversions were welcomed by the nearby communities. Fuel consumption was reduced, and performance was also improved.

The retired airliners from which the pylons and turbofan engines were removed remained in storage for many years, providing a source of additional parts as well as airframes for various types of training and testing. All of these pictures were taken on the same day in May 1996.

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Taken on: June 24, 2014

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Camera: Nikon LS-5000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon LS-5000
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0 Macintosh
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