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    Airframe Family: Boeing B747 / C-25 / C-33 / E-4 / AL-1
    Latest Model:747-273C
    Construction Number:20652
    Last Civil Registration:N79712
    Compressed ID:Boeing 747-273C cn 20652 cr N79712
    Latest Owner or Location:Boeing Aircraft Holding Company

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    Dates

    Event

    1973

    Constructed as a 747-273C.

    From 25 May 1973 to November 1983

    To World Airways with new c/r N748WA.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: EZ/XZ Collection
    Notes: At Los Angeles International, California

    From 1 October 1978 to November 1980

    Leased to Seaboard World.

    23 August 1980


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    November 1983

    To National Airlines keeping c/r N748WA.

    15 April 1985

    To Korean Airlines with new c/r HL7471.

    From 8 May 1985 to 29 May 1986

    Leased to Saudi Arabian Airlines.

    1986


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab

    28 February 2000

    To Boeing Aircraft Holding Company with new c/r N79712.

    Circa 2002

    Scrapped.
    At Pinal Air Park, Marana, AZ.
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