Honeywell Boeing 720 N720H Phoenix December 27 2007 Canvas Print

Honeywell 720-051B N720H landing at Sky Harbor Airport at 2:52 PM MST on December 27, 2007. At the time, it was the oldest airworthy Boeing jet airliner in the United States. It made one more flight and was later scrapped. It wore construction number 18384. It first flew on September 15, 1961. TWA leased it as N794TW beginning on August 27, 1961. Northwest leased it as N733US on October 26, 1962 and then bought it on July 1, 1968. Maersk Air registered it as OY-APZ in January 1973 and leased it to Nigeria Airways in December 1974. TEA leased it as OO-TYA on November 6, 1979 and returned it to Maersk on January 19, 1980. Conair acquired it on February 16, 1981. Allied Signal registered it as N720GT on November 24, 1987 and mounted an engine test pylon on the right side of the forward fuselage. Honeywell International registered it as N720H in February 2000 and installed a Honeywell AS977 engine. Honeywell conducted frequent engine test flights with it.

Brian Lockett is a photographer specializing in panoramic landscape and aviation photography. He started with a Kodak Brownie in the 1960s. He got his first 35mm camera in 1973 and had a lengthy addiction to Kodachrome. He transitioned to digital photography in 2004. Brian's territory is the American Southwest, primarily Arizona, California, and Nevada. Brian has long engaged in panoramic landscape photography. In recent years he has used a Gigapan robotic camera mount to make extremely high resolution, very wide angle pictures assembled from hundreds of images. Some of his pictures exceed 2 billion pixels. The giant image files that Brian produces with the Gigapan are available from Fine Art America as prints as large as...