The one that will never take off again
Boeing 707 · N707JT
Most quiet aircraft on this board are quiet because they are parked, or because they would rather you did not know. This one is quiet because it is a museum exhibit.
N707JT is a Boeing 707-138B — a rare short-body version built to Qantas's order, so that the type could reach Australia with useful range. The 707 is the aeroplane that made ordinary long-haul jet travel possible in the late 1950s, and by the time Travolta owned this one it was already a flying antique with four thirsty engines and a cockpit full of dials.
He is a genuinely qualified pilot, held a type rating on it, and flew it himself in full Qantas livery.
In 2017 he announced he was giving it to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in Australia. Getting it there proved harder than flying it there: the aircraft was dismantled and sent by sea, arriving at Port Kembla in New South Wales in May 2026 to be reassembled at Albion Park as a permanent static exhibit.
So this card will never turn green, and that is the correct outcome rather than a bug. We have left it on the roster deliberately. A tracker that only shows you the jets currently in the air tells you less than one that also tells you why a particular aeroplane has gone silent forever.
There is a second ex-Qantas aircraft on this board, and it went in the opposite direction. See the Wing of Zion.
What we have actually seen: nothing. Not one
flight since we started logging on
14 July 2026 — while other
aircraft on this board were caught repeatedly over the same period.
Every other jet on the board is below.