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Airframe 21648 History
 
 
Airframe:
21648/367
 
 
Version:
747SP-SP21
 
 
Engines:
PW JT9D-7A
 
 
Cabin Configuration:
Executive
 
 
Current Status:
in service
 
 
 
Date
Reg
Airline
Livery
Name
Event
Airport
Notes
3/30/1979 N539PA Pan Am First Flight
5/11/1979 N539PA Pan Am Old Clipper Black Hawk Delivered
1/1/1980 N539PA Pan Am Old Clipper Liberty Bell Other New name
3/3/1981 N539PA Pan Am Incident Shanghai During landing the #1 engine made momentary contact with ground due to drift.
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2/12/1986 N539PA United Bought
3/1/1986 N539PA United Pan Am Cheatline Seen
6/1/1986 N148UA United Reg Changed
8/1/1986 N148UA United Seen
8/5/1990 N148UA United Incident EWR Struck stairs on ramp while taxiing for departure on ferry flight.
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4/29/1991 N148UA United Incident EWR Aircraft levelled off at FL350 when there was vibrations and a loud bang in the cockpit.
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6/1/1991 N148UA United Old colors, large titles Seen SFO
5/1/1994 N148UA United Old c/s, no titles Seen LAS Seen in storage, minus titles
10/1/1995 N148UA Worldwide Aircraft Holding Bought
10/15/1995 N148UA First Security Bank of Utah Other Re-registered with new owner taking title
11/1/1995 N148UA Reg Cancelled
11/30/1995 VR-BAT Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LHR
9/1/1996 VR-BAT No titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen
9/1/1997 VP-BAT No titles Reg Changed
7/31/2004 VP-BAT Worldwide Aircraft Holding Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen SAT After undergoing some heavy maintenance for a few months and receivinga new paint job at San Antonio Aerospace, VP-BAT departed SAT on 31 July 04.
1/8/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen BOH Used for royal flights only a few per year.
3/24/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Seen MUC
6/5/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Seen ZRH Arrived from Doha (DOH) 16.25 local time. Will Depart to Bournemouth (BOH) around 17.30 local. C7S WW1
6/15/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Seen ORY
6/26/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen ZRH Arrived from Doha during the day, departed 20:30 local time to Bournemouth
7/15/2005 VP-BAT No Titles basic Qatar Amiri Flight Seen LBG
7/25/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Seen LBG
9/28/2005 VP-BAT No Titles Seen CDG
4/7/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen BOH Departed Bournemouth at 19:25 local time for Heathrow International.
4/9/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen BOH Arrived at Bournemouth at about 18:05 as flight WW1.
7/17/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen ZRH
8/22/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LBG
9/15/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Amiri Flight Seen LHR Seen landing at Heathrow airport.
9/22/2006 VP-BAT Sold Reportedly being sold to an unnamed Australian based airline.
9/22/2006 VP-BAT Seen
11/17/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LBG
11/18/2006 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LBG Departure
2/3/2007 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen ZRH
6/22/2007 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LHR Spotted on approach to London Heathrow 27L using the callsign VAT
3/8/2008 VP-BAT No Title Seen DUB Departing on check flight after maintenance
5/10/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Seen LIS VP-BAT was spotted today in Lisbon doing flight WW1. The flight was Sharjah to Bournemouth. It arrived on the 9th of May around 2230GMT and departed on the 10th of May at 1300 GMT
6/13/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen MUC Arrived from Bournemouth (BOH) around 15:45 local time, departed to Doha (DOH) 17:25 local time. Callsign: WW1 Together with A4O-SO at Munich Airport!
8/28/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Sitting in front of exc. terminal
8/28/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Seen parked at Phoenix Arizona USA. KPHX. Very rare B-747SP.
8/29/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX The aircraft arrived on I believe Wednesday 27th aug. The airplane is still here located on the south side of the airport.
9/5/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Aircraft is sitting Transient in Phoenix, AZ USA on one of the Cargo Terminal ramps.
9/6/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag PHX This aircraft is on the southwest ramp, parked, at least for a week.
9/18/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX
11/5/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Returned to PHX
11/8/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Parked in the same location as it was on its previous visit.
12/3/2008 VP-BAT Seen Still sitting at PHX
12/10/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Prestwick Seen doing circuits
12/10/2008 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen Prestwick Crew trained today for several hours in the Prestwick circuit, callsign WW1
1/8/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Seen sitting on the East Cargo Ramp at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
1/8/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Still sitting at PHX cargo area west of terminal 2 where it has been for quite some time.
1/22/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Other TUS Came in for touch-and-goes during overcast skies with light rain. Radio transmissions suggest that they came in from PHX to do some training. Call sign was WW1.
1/24/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag PHX Parked near PHX Cargo Area. The front passenger door is open with moble airstairs parked at door. There was a food truck with a lift and it was at the rear of the plane and a fuel truck was servicing the aircraft.
1/25/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LHR seen pushed
2/2/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX VP-BAT back in PHX. Returned and parked at the same location. (Monday 2/2/2009 1:42PM)
2/12/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX aircraft seen departing KPHX 16:58 MST 12 Feb 2009 (confirmed per flightaware.com) as Worldwide Jet Charter #1 (WWI1) on route to Bournemouth UK (EGHH)
3/3/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar style c/s, Qatar flag Seen LHR Landed at London Heathrow rwy 27R around 13:40
3/7/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Saw Back in PHX Today when I was departing.
3/16/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen PHX Parked at West Cargo ramp.
3/28/2009 VP-BAT QATAR PHX Still parked near PHX cargo area. It has been there at the same location for a couple of weeks now. No movement around the aircraft such as any service equipment/vehicles.
4/21/2009 VP-BAT Seen SAA BACK IN SAN ANTONIO AEROSPACE FOR A C CHECK
4/26/2009 VP-BAT Seen San Antonio TX This plane was sitting outside some big orange hangers, (must be some maintenance shop), last Monday afternoon. When I returned Friday afternoon, it was gone.
7/30/2009 VP-BAT qatar Other Chateauroux Training session at Chateauroux - LFLX ( France ). Go-around.
8/13/2009 VP-BAT Seen EGHH A/C seen taking off Rwy 26 approx 10:30hrs. Climbed out with left turn due to large build up north of airport. Unknown Destination and callsign.
8/14/2009 VP BAT Qatar Seen Bournemouth (Hurn) Seen over Poole climbing while making a left turn after taking off from Bournemouth (Hurn) Airport. Not seen at the airport during a visit on 08/11/2009
10/31/2009 VP-BAT Seen HAM Arrived (callsign: "worldwide one") at HAM (Rwy15) and taxied straight to LHT Maintenance area. Pic avail if u like...
10/31/2009 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen HAM Came from BOH as WW001 for an engine change at Lufthansa Technik Hamburg
11/5/2009 VP-BAT none Seen HAM seen at HAM, came in for maintenance
2/2/2010 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen EGLL Landed 27R around 17:33
3/18/2010 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen HAM maintenance at LHT Hamburg
7/9/2010 VP-BAT Qatar Amiri Flight Seen ZRH Arrived at about 9:30 PM on RWY 34
7/11/2010 VP-BAT No Titles Qatar Style c/s, Qatar flag Seen Bournemouth (EGHH/BOH) Seen departing runway 26 at 9:20am. Departed and turned right to approximate heading of 090. Likely to be flying to Zurich or Hamburg

 
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VP-BAT

Date: 10/31/2009 at HAM
Photo: Lars Hentschel
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came from BOH as WW001 for an engine change at LH Technik
 


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VP-BAT
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Date: 1/25/2009 at LHR
Photo: Lars Hentschel
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VP-BAT

Date: 1/8/2009 at PHX
Photo: mike richter
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VP-BAT

Date: 1/8/2009 at PHX
Photo: mike richter
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secluded cargo area at PHX
 


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Date: 8/29/2008 at PHX
Photo: Williams Cochran
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Sitting in front of exc. terminal.at sky harbor in Phoenix,Az
 

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