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Boeing 707-121 N710PA "Clipper America" was the first to be delivered to Pan american on the 29th of September 1958 and shows the original small fin with no underfin and the orginal Pratt and Whittney JT3C-6 engines. After British suggetions, required to gain British certification, the fin and rudder were extended and an underfin added to the basis 707 design. All 707's already delivered were retrofitted with these design changes. As was also typical for early Pratt and Whittney 707's, this aircraft was later converted to 120B status in 1965. This entailed re-engining with Pratt and Whitney JT3D turbofan engines giving substantially mor power. This aircraft is shown as it appeared prior to the first Pan American Jet passenger service across the Atlantic to Paris Orly on the 26th of October 1958. She was eventually scrapped in 1984 at Taipei Taiwan, after being sold tp Pan Ayer and subsequently leased out to Turkish Hava Yollari (THY) and Bouraq Indonesian Airlines before entering storage at Taipei in 1979.