Hi.

I have a question about this aircraft HERE.
It's a B707-327C (Cargo), registration number N7099, leased to Qantas from Braniff. Is this a converted 707-300 passenger plane to a 707-300 cargo plane? I'm just asking because, at first glance, it looks just like a 707 passenger plane. The large cargo door on the opposite side of it lets you know it's really a cargo plane. Was it really that much cheaper to put a cargo door in the side and just leave the passenger windows there?

It just looks really strange. Had I not notice the cargo door, I would have believed it was a passenger plane. It was the US registration number that made me take a closer look in the first place.

Mark

Sorry if this is not really the proper place to ask about this.

Well it was a new one on me.

I knew that some Boeing aircraft were released as "Combo's". I had not seen one done like that (the whole aircraft). With that being said, when I went to the Avalon Air Show last year, there was a DC10 that the US Navy was using it for refueling trials (I can't find my pics at the moment). It still had all the passenger windows in it, but it had a what looked like a huge bladder that covered the windows.  doubt that it really was a bladder and they wouldn't let me in so I could take a good look. Of course.

Mark

As Ive said, iIdidnt know if the 707 had such version. But for example the Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation was such an aircraft, where it was possible to change from cargo to pax in just a few hours.