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==Aircraft==
[[File:The approximate explosion location.png|alt=Location of the explosion under the name "Pan Am"|thumb|The explosion occurred almost directly under the second A in "Pan Am" on this side of the fuselage, in the forward cargo hold. Note: the aircraft was not repainted to
The aircraft operating Pan Am Flight 103 was a [[Boeing 747-100|Boeing 747-121]], [[Serial number|MSN]] 19646, [[Aircraft registration|registered]] as {{Airreg|N|739PA}} and named ''Clipper Maid of the Seas.''<ref name="Mayday" /> Before 1979, it had been named ''Clipper Morning Light''.{{Cn|date=July 2024}} It was the 15th 747 built and had [[maiden flight|first flown]] on 25 January 1970. It was delivered to Pan Am on 15 February,<ref name=Boeing>{{cite news |title=Jet That Crashed Was an Early 747 |date=22 December 1988 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |page=A6 |quote=The jumbo jet that crashed...in Scotland was the 15th 747 built...The Pan Am 747-100...was delivered to Pan American in February 1970. The first 747 ever delivered to an airline–also Pan Am–entered the fleet the previous month, said David Jimenez, spokesman for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, which builds 747s in Everett.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/panam103/stories/crash122288.htm |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=22 December 1988 |access-date=21 May 2010 |title=Pan Am Jet Crashes in Scotland, Killing at Least 273 |first=Edward |last=Cody |page=A1 |archive-date=31 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831214155/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/panam103/stories/crash122288.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> one month after the first 747 entered service with [[Pan Am]].<ref name=Boeing/><ref>{{cite news |title=Doomed plane 'well inside its service limit' |date=22 December 1988 |first1=David |last1=Cross |first2=Peter |last2=De Ionno |newspaper=Times of London}}</ref> In 1978, as ''Clipper Morning Light'', it had appeared in "Conquering the Atlantic", the fourth episode of the [[BBC Television]] documentary series ''Diamonds in the Sky'', presented by [[Julian Pettifer]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkQ2ObJEokQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/pkQ2ObJEokQ |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Diamonds in the Sky EP04 – Aviation travel industry history series – Conquering the Atlantic |publisher=YouTube |date=18 May 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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