Pan Am buffs, I need your help

BU767 · 02-20-2003, 06:40 PM

In the 70's Pan Am named one of their 747s Clipper KISS (as in the rock group KISS). Does anyone know the reg. # for this plane? Been trying to find out for ages now, as I want to build this specific model. The answer eludes me, so I thought I'd ask you guys.

BU767

Spider-man · 02-20-2003, 11:30 PM

This is Pan AM's heritage site. It has all the Clipper names listed by reg. http://www.panam.org/default1.asp

02-20-2003, 11:55 PM

ANyone have any pics of this plane?

HannibalHays · 02-21-2003, 09:12 AM

Very interesting... unfortunately, it doesn't seem to appear on their aircraft database anywhere...

AlphaSigOU · 02-21-2003, 01:33 PM

It is very possible that these Clipper names were simply that -- temporary. And more than likely, put there only for the publicity shots while the aircraft was chartered. There's gotta be some slide photographer or collector out there that might have a slide or photo.

BU767 · 02-21-2003, 02:30 PM

I know this plane was named Clipper KISS as there is a picture of the top front of this plane in the book KISSTORY. I will try to scan it over the weekend, and post it here.

I have also written the Pan Am heritage society, but I have not received a reply from them yet.

BU767

ANTHONY F DUVA JR · 02-22-2003, 07:52 PM

Might not the picture have been "faked" by air-brushing the name "KISS" over the plane's real name, just for public relations or just to be cute? It has been done before!

BU767 · 02-23-2003, 04:52 PM

I am atteching the picture of this plane, or how the picture appears in the book KISSTORY. To me it does not look like the picture has been airbrushed as a publisity stunt, but who knows. You make the decision, I think it is real.

BU767

02-23-2003, 05:16 PM

Wild! Could you imagine an airline today naming a plane for Eminem?

HannibalHays · 02-24-2003, 06:30 AM

I dunno...

Any reg #, date, airport ID , publication, etc...

Did the band fly on it? Tour charter? Special event?

BU767 · 02-24-2003, 01:12 PM

I do not know the reg # or what version of the 747 it is. The picture appears on page 230 in KISSTORY. In the book it only shows the top front of the aircraft (like the picture I enclosed). I think the band chartered the plane in the 70's sometime while they toured. It would be a nice costum model don't you think?

BU767

HannibalHays · 02-24-2003, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by BU767
It would be a nice costum model don't you think?... BU767

Simple enough... just start acetone stripping the Clipper names off a bunch of PA "Juan Trippe" models...

BU767 · 02-24-2003, 07:17 PM

Scotty said:

Simple enough... just start acetone stripping the Clipper names off a bunch of PA "Juan Trippe" models...

That was my though exactly (not likely to happen) unless it is a 747SP, then you just have to strip off the 'Mayflower' name. And of course the reg # must be changed too, but that is not a major operation either...

BU767

HannibalHays · 02-25-2003, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BU767
... just start acetone stripping... BU767

... Seems like I keep buying the stuff in larger and larger sizes (and with my appearance that makes the clerks quite suspicious...

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02-20-2003, 06:40 PM	#1
BU767 Senior Collector Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 254	Pan Am buffs, I need your help In the 70's Pan Am named one of their 747s Clipper KISS (as in the rock group KISS). Does anyone know the reg. # for this plane? Been trying to find out for ages now, as I want to build this specific model. The answer eludes me, so I thought I'd ask you guys. BU767 __________________ Give me a Braathens 767-200 already

02-20-2003, 11:30 PM	#2
Spider-man Insane Collector Join Date: May 2002 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, North America, Earth, Milky Way, Universe Posts: 1,636	This is Pan AM's heritage site. It has all the Clipper names listed by reg. http://www.panam.org/default1.asp __________________ Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man

02-21-2003, 09:12 AM	#4
HannibalHays Master Collector Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Valley of the Sun Posts: 841	Very interesting... unfortunately, it doesn't seem to appear on their aircraft database anywhere... __________________ Scott

02-21-2003, 01:33 PM	#5
AlphaSigOU Insane Collector Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Wylie, Texas Age: 44 Posts: 1,419	It is very possible that these Clipper names were simply that -- temporary. And more than likely, put there only for the publicity shots while the aircraft was chartered. There's gotta be some slide photographer or collector out there that might have a slide or photo. __________________ *Chuck Corway (AlphaSigOU)* *Causa latet vis est notissima* -- the cause is hidden, the results are well known. James Bond: "I'll take the full odds on the ten, two hundred on the hard way, the limit on all the numbers, two hundred and fifty on the eleven, thank you very much." Plenty O'Toole: "Hey! You've played this game before!" James Bond: "Just once." *REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!! REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!!! REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 11!!!!*

02-21-2003, 02:30 PM	#6
BU767 Senior Collector Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 254	I know this plane was named Clipper KISS as there is a picture of the top front of this plane in the book KISSTORY. I will try to scan it over the weekend, and post it here. I have also written the Pan Am heritage society, but I have not received a reply from them yet. BU767 __________________ Give me a Braathens 767-200 already

02-20-2003, 11:55 PM	#3
Romania is #1 Guest Posts: n/a	ANyone have any pics of this plane?

02-22-2003, 07:52 PM	#7
ANTHONY F DUVA JR ^~.. Maximum R & B ..~^ Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Land of a thousand dances Posts: 3,064	Might not the picture have been "faked" by air-brushing the name "KISS" over the plane's real name, just for public relations or just to be cute? It has been done before! __________________ FLY DUVA AIR's LUXURIOUS, DOUBLE-DECK BOEING "STRATO" CLIPPER !

02-23-2003, 04:52 PM	#8
BU767 Senior Collector Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 254	THE PICTURE I am atteching the picture of this plane, or how the picture appears in the book KISSTORY. To me it does not look like the picture has been airbrushed as a publisity stunt, but who knows. You make the decision, I think it is real. BU767 __________________ Give me a Braathens 767-200 already

02-23-2003, 05:16 PM	#9
NYCAAer Guest Posts: n/a	Wild! Could you imagine an airline today naming a plane for Eminem?

02-24-2003, 06:30 AM	#10
HannibalHays Master Collector Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Valley of the Sun Posts: 841	I dunno... Any reg #, date, airport ID , publication, etc... Did the band fly on it? Tour charter? Special event? __________________ Scott

02-24-2003, 01:12 PM	#11
BU767 Senior Collector Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 254	I do not know the reg # or what version of the 747 it is. The picture appears on page 230 in KISSTORY. In the book it only shows the top front of the aircraft (like the picture I enclosed). I think the band chartered the plane in the 70's sometime while they toured. It would be a nice costum model don't you think? BU767 __________________ Give me a Braathens 767-200 already

02-24-2003, 07:17 PM	#13
BU767 Senior Collector Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 254	Scotty said: Simple enough... just start acetone stripping the Clipper names off a bunch of PA "Juan Trippe" models... That was my though exactly (not likely to happen) unless it is a 747SP, then you just have to strip off the 'Mayflower' name. And of course the reg # must be changed too, but that is not a major operation either... BU767 __________________ Give me a Braathens 767-200 already

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