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Las Vegas Sands also operates two and their page has better photos of the stubby body and huge tail of the SP: http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Boe

• downandout 11y ago
  I've seen one of these LVS 747's in person. It may be "smaller" than the regular one, but it is truly massive. If you ever stay at Mandalay Bay and face the airport, you are basically looking almost directly over the LVS hangar. The only thing that would concern me if I were a super-whale that earned a trip on this plane is its age...nearly 40 years is a very long time in airplane years.
  • markbnj 11y ago
    >> nearly 40 years is a very long time in airplane years The reason it isn't, in fact, a very long time is that airplanes, unlike most other vehicles, are subject to highly rigorous regular maintenance and part replacement programs. The airframes themselves can last essentially forever (well beyond the decades time frame that we're discussing) if specified maintenance continues to be performed. Witness the many WWII and earlier aircraft still flying at seven or more decades of life.
  • dingaling 11y ago
    I'm regularly overflown by USAF KC-135 tankers with FY 57 serials. There isn't much left in them that was actually built in 1957