When the British Orion Air folded in 1989, the Raleigh-based operators of this ex-Pan Am 747 acquired in 3.89 had the name all to themselves. But they too went under next year after operating Air Europe charters from the UK, during which time this 747 was dubbed 'The Flying Pig' due to serious unreliability causing massive delays. Seen here after the sub-lease; part-out at Marana from 1992 as N476EV of Evergreen

Rare record of what is now the oldest 747 still flying, as 5-8101 with the IRIAF. Line no 5 made her maiden flight on 5.12.69 as N93101, the first Jumbo for TWA. Converted to freighter 3.75, sold to the Iran AF and borrowed by Iran Air briefly in 1984 as EP-NHJ and in 1985 as seen here. Note refuelling bump on nose

Over the threshold of runway 16.

The 747 transporter and shuttle Enterprise were displayed at Stansted for a while

British Airways' 747s were not the cleanest visitors to Sydney in 1980

The grand-daddy of them all, in storage before re-positioning back to Seattle for the Museum of Flight in 1990

Here resplendent in her classic original colours, 'GB was delivered in 12.70 and was sold to Nationair as C-GNXH 20 years later, then being leased to Garuda for three periods before going into store at Mojave in 1.94; b/u early 1998

When the international terminal opened in 1970 it had four outside observation desks on two levels. This photo is taken from the upper northern one.

G-AWNG over the threshold of runway 25