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The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a large long-range airliner developed from the C-97 Stratofreighter military transport, itself a derivative of the B-29 Superfortress. The Stratocruiser's first flight was on July 8, 1947. [ 3 ]
Aero Spacelines B-377-SG Super Guppy, prototype of a much enlarged version of the Guppy using C-97J components, powered by four Pratt & Whitney T-34-P-7WA turbo-prop engines. [ 1 ] Aero Spacelines B-377-SGT Super Guppy Turbine (Guppy 201), production version powered by Allison 501-D22C turbo-prop engines, [ 1 ] using an enlarged cargo section ...
Pan Am Flight 845/26 was a four-engined Boeing 377 Stratocruiser named Clipper United States and registered as N1032V. It departed Portland International Airport in Oregon on a flight to Honolulu International Airport in Hawaii on March 26, 1955. The aircraft was en route and about 35 miles (56 km) off the Oregon coast when at 11:12 Pacific ...
On the evening of October 15 the flight left Honolulu on a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Clipper named Sovereign Of The Skies (Pan Am fleet number 943, registered N90943). The accident was the basis for the 1958 film Crash Landing .
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2 was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft that was ditched into Puget Sound, just off Maury Island at the Point Robinson Light, shortly after takeoff from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) on the morning of Monday, April 2, 1956. [2] [3] [4] The plane flew over Normandy Park heading southwest.
The XC-97 and YC-97 can be distinguished from the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser and later C-97s by the shorter fin, and later ones by the flying boom and jet engines on the tanker models. The prototype XC-97 was powered by the same 2,200 hp (1,600 kW ) Wright R-3350 engines as used in the B-29.
The missing aircraft was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10–29 with serial number 15960 and registered with tail number N90944. [1]: 15 It first flew on August 30, 1949, as Flagship Ireland for American Overseas Airlines (AOA), and was transferred to Pan Am on September 28, 1950, after Pan Am's acquisition of AOA. [1]: 7 [22]: 146
The cargo area of the Mini Guppy. The sole Model 377MG Mini Guppy was converted from a Boeing 377-10-26 (c/n 15937) and registered N1037V. An entirely new fuselage was fitted to the aircraft with a cargo bay measuring 73 ft (22 m) long and 18 ft (5.5 m) wide with a 13 ft (4.0 m) cargo floor; smaller than the cargo bay of the preceding Pregnant Guppy.