SOLE SURVIVING BOEING 307 STRATOLINER ARRIVES AT DULLES AIRPORT AFTER ITS FINAL FLIGHT, 2003-08-06 (photo)

The world's only surviving Boeing 307 Stratoliner does a flyby over a runway at Washington's Dulles International Airport as it arrives on its final flight ever, August 6, 2003. The aircraft, the world's first pressurized airliner, capable of flying at altitudes of around 20,000 feet, will join the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's collection at the Udvar-Hazy Center, where artifacts that cannot fit in the main museum in downtown Washington will be housed. This particular aircraft, built in the late 1930s, was originally delivered to Pan American Airways, where it was christened "Clipper Flying Cloud." It then had a colorful career, flying for the U.S. Army Air Forces in WWII, returning to airline service in 1946, then passing through the hands of several owners, including infamous Haitian leader "Papa Doc" Duvalier.