Just over 3 minutes earlier a Saudi 747SP had departed on this runway, 25L, at LAX! What are the odds of that? This one is operated by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, and carries their distinctive colours.

After about 3 hour on the ground this 747SP left LAX...but the real treat came with the next aircraft to land on the same runway was also a 747SP! what are the odds of that?

Seen on final for runway 25L at LAX.

Delivered new 22nd Nov 1976 and leased out as 3B-NAR Nov 1991-Aug 1992 and as V5-SPE March 1993-May 1993. Scrapped FAOR (Johannesburg) June 2008

Seen here on a saturday evening arrival of the weekly service MK028 MRU-MUC with a scheduled arrival at Munich on 17:30 p.m., seating configuration F12J26Y261. Delivered 23/04/1980 to Braniff Airways as N604BN and sold 12/09/1980 to Aerolineas Argentinas as LV-OHV. After ten years of operation in Argentina, the a/c was canx. to Mauritius as 3B-NAQ on 31/05/1990. After six years in Mauritius canx. 07/02/1996 to Qatar Airways as A7-ABM, later to Qatar Amiri Flight as A7-AHM on 04/11/1996. Sold 26/11/2000 to Yemen Gvmt. as 7O-YMN and destroyed on 19/03/2015 at Aden, Yemen, during ground attacks.

Out of service United B747SP, parked at Las Vegas. Broken up at Ardmore, OK in 1999/2000

Leased from South African Airways on several occasions.

Scanned from slide.

The SOFIA aircraft, Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy.

Operated as N709BA with the Wings World Wide Air Medical Foundation Jun 2001 to Oct 2002. Then stored Marana. Broken up 2006.

Delivered new to CAAC 29th Feb 1980 and transferred to Air China July 1988. Sold as N135SW 23rd Dec 1999

Delivered new 22nd Apr 1976, leased out as 7Q-YKL and LX-LGX and sold as N747KS 20th July 1999

Like many new entrants into the London market, CAAC (now Air China) began services from Gatwick before subsequently securing slots at Heathrow.