The Qantas 707-138 was flown back to Australia by John Travolta himself. Even his late wife Kelly Preston dressed up as a stewardess for the occasion. He flew it to Australia where Qantas took possession of it and put it on display in their museum. It is a special Qantas - only model built for them by Boeing. It is a short fuselage / long range model. Thank you for this video and a medal to those museums that chose to keep the whole aircraft for display.

Thank you for sharing and providing some great information.

My man rockin a massive head cold and still puttin' out a quality video . 🙂👍

I've flown in 707's in the 1960's. Frankly I'd rather fly from NY to Frankfurt in a 707 that a current 737. Tex Johnson did a demo flight for Airline executives where he did a 360 deg ROLL to show it's strength! What a plane!!!

Don't forget about the USAF VC-137B SAM 970 (originally a 707-120), aka Air Force One during the 60's, 70's & 80's, located at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. It is displayed outdoors under cover and you can walk through it. Another former Air Force One VC-137B, SAM 27000, is displayed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. It is displayed indoors on an elevated stand.

Dominican Republic also had a 707 in his Fleet Dominicana de Aviacion flew from 1984 till 1994 it was sent to MIA for overhaul and never came back to the Island...

What a fantastic video !! I’ve been very lucky to visit the museum in Santiago, Chile and Cradle of Aviation. So nice to see these photos of Pan American as my Dad worked for them for 31 years. Love your Channel !!!

A great vid I found it really interesting many thanks mate a big hi from Auckland New Zealand

Cool vid! not often you hear about the 707

Just out of high school, I worked at the Renton Washington Boeing plant on the 707 wing line. The crew I was on built the part of the wing from fuselage to second engine (the rest was wing tip). As a kid, I still remember the barrel roll performed by Tex Johnson, chief test pilot for Boeing at the time) during the Seafair Hydroplane Races on Lake Washington. There is vid of it. Quite spectacular!

Dude, your content is amazing! I love learning about preserved airliners!

BOAC was never pronounced "Boak". The letters are sounded individually, i.e. B.O.A.C. Hope this helps.

The Air Force 1 Boeing 707 that President John F. Kennedy and later presidents used is in the National Museum of the United States Air Force located at the Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. Thank you for this video.

They have at Renton , a SST , and Kennedys Air Force One , if I recall. SST was a real sandine can , and the 707 com. area was by todays standard , antique at best , also very crammed and small inside. Well done ! .

Great video!!!

The 707 at 6:40 was also the plane used as a command post during the Israeli raid on Entebbe back in 1976.

A few clarifications and comments about this fabulous aircraft. The short fuselage 707-138 was designed for Qantas specifically to enable transpacific operations with a viable payload utilising the short runway at Nandi in Fiji. In that respect they were also fitted with a revised slat design to give increased lift and were permitted to operate the Pratt and Whitney engines at a higher thrust setting when taking off at Nandi. The 707-138 located at the Qantas founders Museum in Longreach has no connection with John Travolta. It was the first one delivered to Qantas in 1959 as VH-EBA and named The City of Canberra. It was found derelict at Southend Airport in the UK and, restored to flying condition by a team of retired Qantas engineers and flown back to Australia in 2006. This great story was the subject of a documentary calledIndeed John Travolta owns an ex Qantas 707-138, painted in period Qantas livery, which on occasion he has flown to Australia and which is in the process of being transferred to the Historical Aircraft Museum located at Albion Park South of Sydney. This museum is also the home of a non Qantas Super Constellation in flying condition and the first Qantas 747 400 which famously flew non stop from London to Sydney in 1989. Qantas was the first non North American airline to operate the 707. The 747SP was not designed specifically for Qantas. I think Pan Am were the instigator of the SP to enable non stop New York Tokyo flights. Qantas purchased two SP’s and ironically a major part of their rationale was to enable operations in and out of Christchurch in New Zealand which was one of their shortest sectors. At that time the Qantas fleet was 100% 747’s which were too big for the windy city. Elvis owned a Convair 880 not a 707

Former Tracor employee. I saw several of these aircraft in this video had our hush kit on them. Everyone so equipped I would bet I have have put hands on ❤ I am 65 now, I was in my 20s in Goleta working on 707s. Later went to LAX and Continental.

Thank you!!

The..."-80." Even the the names Boeing gave their planes when they were still experimental were kool...

“Do a barrel roll!!!”

There is a preserved 707 cockpit at the New England Air Museum.

My absolute favourite aircraft, having had a flight on an Aer Lingus one in 1972. A friend of mine is a retired Aer Lingus flight engineer. He was part of the crew who flew a 707 to Saudi in 1984, where it had been purchased by an airline there. The crew came back on a prearranged flight. Upon returning to Dublin, my friend and his colleagues were informed the new owners had decided to take the 707 on a test flight just after they'd left, and crashed it on takeoff, writing it off. The Saudi crew escaped with injuries, the poor old Boeing killed before the Irish crew got home! It was probably the very one I flew on in '72.

Boeing produced a 707 variation called the 720. Production ended in 1967 with 154 having been built.

Fantastic video! Didn't have any problems that other posters mentioned. Maybe because I have sinus problems and have also heard my recorded voice played back to me (honestly it's weird, bone conduction, look it up).

This is kinda like comparing an old school Silverado from the 70s to the next gens...

There is one Ex-Qantas Boeing 707 as well as a super constellation, DC3 & Boeing 747-200 at the Qantas Museum in Longreach. Its a small regional town in the Australian outback and is where Qantas came from. To think that it was just a small airline serving Regional Air Mail to becoming Australia's signature carrier is truly incredible. Its actually sad to see the state its being in since the pandemic though. It is expensive to fly out there and are limited flights so we went on a Caravan trip because their were also a lot of other museums there. In Longreach, Winton, Ifracombe areas there are a lot of great museums, some about aviation and some about old types of machinery. I am 15 and am an Aviation enthuist. Unlike others my age, though, I also like going to Museums. I am fascinated with history and just how some of these inventions worked.

The 707-138 was actually a LONG range version with a shorter fuselage but standard fuel tanks to permit transpacific operations. More efficient engines in the later versions reduced the number of stops from two (Fiji and Hawaii) to one (Hawaii) with the 747SP version built specifically for QANTAS permitting nonstop flights from Sydney and Brisbane to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

My best memories of the 707 was witnessing the Air Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 ones perform low pass fly-bys live as part of the Mashonaland Flying Club Air Shows in 1993 and 1995. My last flight on a 707 was on Air Zim in August 1993 from Harare to Lilongwe, Malawi.

I realize that this video refers to the “707”, if you include the “720” there is a 720B preserved at Trenton, Ontario, Canada. This aircraft is C-FETB which started her career with American Airlines (N7538A) and also flew with Middle East Airlines (OD-AFQ). Thank you for posting this video.

Beautiful!!

Boeing E-8C JSTARS 00-2000 arrived at the MoA at Robins AFB, GA this past summer. I was also there when it arrived and was towed down highway 247 lol They did it during the early morning on a sunday in July. It got hot really freaking fast. Surprisingly, it only took about 3 hours for it to be towed down the road from the flightline to the museum and up the highway on ramp near the museum so that it could enter through a side gate on the museum's northern side. It joins another 707, a strategic flying command center that has been at the museum far longer. Both aircraft sit on the museum grounds. The command center is expected to be repainted in the near future. The JSTARS is currently being put back together from its move and will be outfitted for touring in the near future. They have a/c systems that they plan to install to allow visitors to walk inside the aircraft and view the interior. The ETA is undetermined at this time, however.

The last 707 version ever built are the 18 that were ordered by the US NAVY 16 were purchased and designated the E6-A and are currently on active duty performing the TACAMO/ looking glass mission from Tinker AFB Oklahoma. The last two produced and not turned over to the Navy were sold off and are somewhere around the country still in use as well.

Do a video on the 707's nemesis, the DC-8.

Saw one years ago in Tucson Arizona Russian Registration Guess the KC-135's are a different category I still see them occasionally as we live not too far from an Air Force Base!

J-Stars, i worked on several.

There are still 707 AWACS planes of the USAF that occasionally fly into Tulsa International Airport. I think KC-135s are also an air force version of the 707. Who knows for how much longer though.

What about the 707-320B airliner, serial number 62-6000 that is on display at the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton Ohio? This is a very historic 707 that was used as Air Force 1 for many years. This is the plane that brought Kennedy's casket back from Dallas.

My favorite one to see is the one in Seattle Washington

12:23 - The MAX-10, and possibly the recently grounded MAX-9, is actually a few feet longer than the 707B (720B)! Grown waaaaay beyond its intended service parameter.

The 707 I worked on in the 90s, had major corrosion at the boost pump housing. They weren't making them anymore. They cut wing sections out and they were mostly in bad shape too.

I only flew on a 707 once and it would have been in about 1982 from Johannesburg Jan Smuts to Luxembourg Lux Air being the planes owner.I have a feeling that we refueled in Nairobi but the passengers couldn't get off .My other trips to South Africa as a child were on 747's with South African Airways and British Airways.Plus we did some kind of early Airbus from Johannesburg to Durban once owned by SAA/SAL.

There is a great example of a NASA livery 707 on static display at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California, USA.

The nose cone and fuselage of the Boeing 707 is still in production. It is known as the Boeing 737.

BOAC was always called Bee Oh Ay Cee!

I liked your video, but there is one thing I need to point out, the 707 in Wetteren was first placed on the parking, but after legal issues in 2014 the “Govaert family” then had to move the plane on top of the building, and it remains in that condition today. Keep posting!

As a chilean i want to inform that our 707 is displayed,but sadly is in very bad state without engines and is not accesible to the public and you only can see it in the distance,it's really sad :(.

You forgot to mention the most important 707. The one that served as Air Force One is on display at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson Arizona.

My favorite plane

There’s an RAAF 707 nose section at the HARS museum located south of Sydney.

Good video!

Long live the Boeing "707s"!

Pretty sure I remember the last example mentioned being at Southend. The last operational Belfasts were also stored there.

In the Museo do Ar a military museum outside Lisbon (Sintra), there is a TAP 707-320B Flight Deck and engine. I have visited the museum and can verify the information is accurate.

I live near a NATO airport. Every day 2 707’s fly to Poland and the North-Sea. The engine sound is… MASSIVE…

The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia had a 707 that I loved in the 1970's, but it was sold for scrap in the 1980's.

There is a Boeing 720 (shortened 707) on display at the Canadian Air Force Museum in Trenton, On Canada. This aircraft served as a test bed aircraft with Pratt and Whitney Canada. It retired in 2010, after over 50 years service. It was flown to Trenton in 2012 for display at the Canadian Air Force Museum….

USAF has KC-135's on display and I've heard of a possible E3 AWACs display coming

The USAF (as have the Brits) is retiring their E-3s. One will eventually be put on display at Tinker AFB in OKC where the majority fly. The ones retired so far are making it to AMARC in Tucson. I have not yet heard if one will go to Dayton or not for the USAF Museum.

Reagan Presidential Museum @ Simi Valley, California has an outstanding example of this aircraft.

Hola, en argentina se puede ver una gran cantidad de 707 en la base aérea del palomar, se puede entrar siendo alumno de la escuela técnica de allí o con una invitación especial (el avión no están en abandono, está con las plenas condiciones de volar)

The 367-80 has no common parts with the 707. It is more closely related to the C-135 (the 707 is the C-137). The differences include the fuselage diameter.

You forgot TC-91, preserved in El Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, at Escuela Aeronáutica El Palomar, pupils start the engines weekly, it's almost in flying condition.

Hi. I spent 13 years flying BOAC's 707s, including the one on display in Scotland. Beautiful aircraft. I also flew the Ruler of Qatar's first 707 (A7-AAA) on its 3 week delivery trip to Doha. Do you know what happened to it?

Thanks, preservation is a subjective thing. DC-8s could make 2x good episodes: flying & preserved [whole]. _Being picky, I didn't expect cut up little bits of 707 to count. Cheers._

Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson has a BOEING VC-137B (707-153) STRATOLINER. If I missed this being mentioned, I am finishing my day at work listening to this.

Should also the Phoenix based air refueling battalion the copperheads still use a fleet of retrofitted 707s to this day

You missed a European 707. I am in college to become in aircraft mechanic at the college next to Dutch airport EHBK. We have a huge part of a 707 there. We practice maintance there.

There's another 707 nose section on display in South Africa at the SAA museum at Rand Airport

Plenty of military versions of the 707 like the KC-135 and E-3 Sentry are still in active use by Air Forces.

I think Elvis had a 707 named "Lisa Marie". Sadly it was too dilapidated to be restored. Thanks for the upload. 😅

There is a 707at CFB Trenton Ontario Canada.

All converted to 737s, 777s, and many more!

Be nice to make them in to homes.

Might be worth upgrading your mic.

DAMN!!!! l been asking that question for the last 50 years and not one person knows. I knew i should have joined youtube and started ebegging but l decided to get a job instead.

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B o a c not boac

I don’t think ever heard BOAC pronounced as Bo-ACK, always as the letters B-O-A-CEE

An AF 1 707 sits at the Reagan Presidential library.

Pause 10:12 - When I think of how old the 737(and by extension its variants) really is, the nose section of the 737 is a direct descendant of a nose section designed in the mid-1950s, on the Dash-80 and ultimately 707! So while the Max series of 737 are about ten years old, they are really just shallow reissues of a fuselage cross section from over SIXTY-FIVE years ago! Now before some of you say "Well, duh B-52 is seventy years old", that is true, but: That is a military platform that is meticulously maintained and still operates within its core theater: On the ready to drop bombs. Back to the pioneering at the time yet primitive by 2000s-to-present standards, that squinty view out must feel awkward to Millennial and Gen-Z pilots who fly a mix of 737s, along with A320s, A321s, 757, and 767s with twice or more than twice the glass area than the former.

I wonder where are the two Olympic Airways 707 that were storage at AMARC

If there is any life left in them, they fly local routes in other countries ...... in South America, Africa, etc.

How many 707's are or can still be flown in 2024?

Museum of flight Boeing field Seattle, WA Air force 1 707 used by JFK, LBJ, NIXON

Good video, but what were those powerpoint-ahh transitions

Anyone with even the tiniest amount of of aviation history would know “BOAC” was actually British Overseas Airways Corporation! But then the narrator is American.

you forgot SAM 26000, JFK's Air Force 1 and is on display at the National Museum of the USAF at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio and SAM 27000, another Air Force 1 on display at the Regan Library in California...

The Air France’s Boeing 707 that is in the bourget museum is in terrible state, it will probably be destroy

Reagan Library in California has President Reagan's 707 Airforce One on display.

BOAC is not pronounced as you say it, "BO-AC"..... it was always said phonetically, "B-O-A-C". Good video, thanks.

Seattle museum of flight has two

How could you omit Air Force One at the Ronald Reagan museum or the one at Wright Patterson AFB?

Where are the DC-8's and L1011?

Sorry fella, but the background music track got on my nerves before the end of your video. Good luck!

Flying for the US Air Force.

Whatever happened to the 707 or 720 used by Led Zeppelin?

The 707 in the Regan museum ?

Israeli Air Force still operates a modified 707 tanker

707 is three numbers...seven-zero-seven. Oh is a letter, there no Oh's (or LETTER'S) in 707. All of Boeing's jets are three numbers 727, 737, 747 etc...this includes the 707. Well..I'm off to watch Hawaii 5 zero for awhile...Ha!!