Repaint of Flying Tiger's first 747-100, N800FT, with the "Shark Face" nose art for the payware CLS 747 HD. Textures were tested in FSX, but they should work in Prepar3D (including v4-5 ports of this add-on).
Ever since the start of its development, Boeing designed the 747 with the capability of carrying cargo on the main deck due to predictions that supersonic transports in development at the time would render widebodies aircraft obsolete on passenger services, thus allowing airlines to convert their passenger 747s as freighters if such a scenario became a reality. The first pure freighter 747, a -200 series aircraft, entered service with Lufthansa in March 1972, but no passenger-to-freighter conversions were carried out until 1974, when Flying Tigers acquired an ex-American Airlines 747-100 for use on their cargo services. The first of many conversions to come was carried out on this aircraft, which was previously registered N9661, from February to August that year before it was handed over to its new operator as N800FT on August 28, 1974. Flying Tigers paid tribute to its 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) heritage by painting it with the Shark Face nose art on its nose, as they were used by the AVG to intimidate enemy aircraft in WWII, but the nose art was later removed before its first flight to Tokyo Haneda to prevent the Japanese from getting offended by it. N800FT later went on to operate for Pan Am from 1978-1979, return to American Airlines in 1981, and fly for UPS from 1984-2002.
