When The Beatles came to America for the first time 58 years ago today – on February 7, 1964 – the four lads from Liverpool famously flew Pan American Airlines’ legendary trans-Atlantic “Clipper” service from London to New York.
The jetliner which had the honor of carrying the mop-top quartet to the Big Apple for their triumphant appearance two days later on The Ed Sullivan Show was, perhaps not surprisingly, a Boeing 707. It was nicknamed Jet Clipper Defiance – with tail-number N-704-PA – and had been proudly built in the Pacific Northwest just one year earlier, at the burgeoning civilian aviation giant’s historic Renton plant.
Sullivan’s “where-were-you-when” Sunday
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