The Specs For Boeing's 747SP Boeing's 747SP is the runt of the litter, sitting at 184 feet, 9 inches long compared to the 747-100 (and the modernized 747-400), which was 231 feet, 10 inches long.

The videoclip shows the 747SP in SAA colours performing two easterly precautionary approaches on the short, narrow strip before making its final approach and landing on 30 September.

World-leading aircraft engine designer RTX’s Pratt & Whitney is set to showcase a Boeing 747SP test bed aircraft at this year’s EAA AirVenture.

For upwards of four decades, the Boeing 747 was pound for pound the largest, most capable, and the most iconic wide-body, quad-engine airliner the world had ever seen. Though Airbus' A380 may have ...

SAA plans to replace two Boeing 767s; five 747-200s, six 747-300s and three 747SP, twenty-two 737-200s and sixteen 737-800 aircraft in eight to nine years.

So Boeing created the 747SP. In addition to Pan Am and Iran Air, Korean Air, Qantas, Trans World Airlines, and South African Airways ordered this variant from Boeing.

World-leading aircraft engine designer RTX’s Pratt & Whitney is set to showcase a Boeing 747SP test bed aircraft at this year’s EAA AirVenture.