Question re AA 747

[AA_Customer]

I typed in the wrong AA flight number ("9") on flightaware.com and up popped an American Airlines Flight 9 (a Boeing 747) two years ago which flew from KSSO(???) to Scottsdale, AZ. The URL for that item is:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL9

Because it said Scottsdale, I'm assuming it's an AA 747 parked in the desert, perhaps a ferry flight, but does AA actually still have, or did it have as recently as Jan 2007, a B-747????
I thought they got rid of those many years ago. I figure some of you employed by AA might know the story.

 

[TIME FOR CHANGE]

I dont think AA owned any 200's only SP's I could be mistaken my 747 days were with PAA

 

[The Goose]

I dont think AA owned any 200's only SP's I could be mistaken my 747 days were with PAA

It may be a stretch, but remember - AA's TWA purchase may have given them a 747 or two. Why it was listed this way is beyond me but no tail number is given, only the type (747-200) and not a SP.

 

[jimntx]

That woiuld be a stretch. I doubt AMR would have spent the money to repaint the a/c in our livery just to fly it to the desert. By the time I started with AA in Sept. 2000, there were no 747s, DC10s, or MD11s in the fleet. The mainline fleet in 2000 consisted of 777, 767, 757, 737, MD80, and F100 (since gone to glory).

You can do amazing things with software like Photoshop these days. I saw a "photograph" recently of one of our MD80s with winglets like the 73s.

 

[youbetcha]

I dont think AA owned any 200's only SP's I could be mistaken my 747 days were with PAA

Waaaay long time ago, AA did own 747s. Late 60s-the 70s, at least. Flown domestically.

 

[Jager]

AA flew 747 SP's to NRT up until the early 90's.. I remember we had 3 or 4 of them.. Pratt engines (junk)

AA also had 747-200 which they traded out for some Pan Am DC10-30's back in 1983-1984.. The 74's were junk and I worked on the avionic mods up in Tracor in Santa Barbara California..

The dash 30's were originally Air Lingus airplanes and we crashed 2 of them at DFW back in the late 80"s(#134) and early 90's (#136)

 

[The Goose]

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You can do amazing things with software like Photoshop these days. I saw a "photograph" recently of one of our MD80s with winglets like the 73s.

No kidding - that would probably rip the wings off.

I'd made a comment when some gents were discussing a photography project and suggested an alien spaceship with a little green man mooning all through a porthole would be hilarious - guess what I found in the email today.

 

[chris perry]

No kidding - that would probably rip the wings off.

I'd made a comment when some gents were discussing a photography project and suggested an alien spaceship with a little green man mooning all through a porthole would be hilarious - guess what I found in the email today.

I believe the space shuttle rides on a former american airlines 747

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

I believe the space shuttle rides on a former american airlines 747

Then perhaps..."THAT" might have been what showed up(Space shuttle)

If I'm saying this correctly(AND if I'm not, I'm sure I'll be corrected), AA Never owned 747-"200's". They flew the "100" for both passengers and Cargo, and then picked up 2 "SP's"(one from some saudi prince, the other from TWA.

As for TWA, I believe that they had only 747-100's, and a few "SP's".(I welcome any correction(s) if I'm mistaken)

 

[jimntx]

But, it would not still have the AA livery on it. The 747 which transports the shuttle says NASA on the sides. The OP saw a picture of a 747 with AA livery, supposedly recently flown to Scottsdale. My guess is that the photo is misdated or someone is playing games with Photoshop-type software.

 

[MCI transplant]

Then perhaps..."THAT" might have been what showed up(Space shuttle)

If I'm saying this correctly(AND if I'm not, I'm sure I'll be corrected), AA Never owned 747-"200's". They flew the "100" for both passengers and Cargo, and then picked up 2 "SP's"(one from some saudi prince, the other from TWA.

As for TWA, I believe that they had only 747-100's, and a few "SP's".(I welcome any correction(s) if I'm mistaken)

<_< -----We got reed of our (TWA) 747's long before AA bought/merged with us! We started getting reed of them out shortly after Flt. 800. The last one was cut up for scrap right here on our ramp at MCI. ------ I'm wondering, if this mysterious Aircraft could be a movie company shooting so new movie? The biggest Aircraft we had when AA took over was a 767-300.

 

[FWAAA]

AA never flew 747-200s; AA's 747-100s flew from 1970-1984. The 747-SPs flew until 1992, when the MD-11s took over NRT flights.

The flight found by the OP was not an AA 747. Not an AA ferry flight, not an AA 747. No idea what the OP found, but it wasn't an AA 747.

 

[eolesen]

The two SP's were never owned by AA --- they were leased from and maintained by TW. Delivered in May 1997 to operate NRT, came to JFK in July 1991 for the LHR startup, and were returned to TW at some point 1992.

AA had two -121's that were leased from PA in 1970 and 1971, and had 14 owned aircraft that flew from 1970 to 1984. They were traded to Pan Am for 15 ex-National Airlines DC10's (11 -10's and 4 -30's)...

Jager, N136 was first DC10-30 trashed (nose gear collapsed after a RTO, was 70 to FRA in 5/21/1988) -- she came from NZ, not NA/PA.

N139 was the second DC10-30 trashed at DFW (4/14/1993, landing as 101 from HNL). She was from NA/PA.

N134 is still flying for FDX as a MD10 as far as I know...

 

[AA_Customer]

But, it would not still have the AA livery on it. The 747 which transports the shuttle says NASA on the sides. The OP saw a picture of a 747 with AA livery, supposedly recently flown to Scottsdale. My guess is that the photo is misdated or someone is playing games with Photoshop-type software.

No I never said I saw any picture. The AA 747 flight in Jan '07 was on flightaware.com, a 25 minute flight (AA #9) on Jan 10, 2007 from "KSSO" (???) to Scottsdale, AZ (KSDL). Flightaware.com is a flight tracking service which, I'd have to assume, gets their data from the FAA (ATC). It normally shows altitude, speed, dep/arr times, route flown, etc. The URL for this particular flight (which I got by typing in the wrong flight #) is:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL9

I have no idea what livery, if any, that plane had on it. What some other poster said about the TWA 747 might explain the flight, but it apparently is the wrong type of 747. Of course, the other explanation for that 1/10/07 AA 747 flight showing up is a glitch in the system which simply coughed up a flight which never took place.

 

[skinvalve]

AA 747's. I remember the PIANO BAR/LOUNGE in the rear cabin. Those were the days.