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The UPS livery for the 747-100(SF)
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Why should this livery be added?
Would make an ideal cargo special livery for airports such as HKG. UPS operated 17 various 747-100 freighters up until 2008.
I’m being a bit cautious approving this one, as I’ve already rejected some 747-200F posts for this reason: given the windows are still visible, I’m not sure if this would constitute as a different variant of the 747-100F instead of a standard one, as it looks more like a combi than a freighter? I know it’s not a combi as it’s a UPS 747, and too my knowledge their only passenger operations were some 727 QCs?
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It’s a weird one, no freighter 747-100s were built by Boeing, all were converts. I believe this was a full on convert as UPS never did combi ops. It’s why I picked the SF variant which both these photos are. A few are a strange ‘SR-81(SF)’ which were operated as just cargo but I have no idea what they mean. Early 747 freighters are weird.
Edit: SR are the short range variants of which some were converted for Nippon cargo as it was a Japanese special request.
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I’ve rejected some 200Fs on the fact they still have visible windows, and too me (when I’m checking these posts) is that they look more like a combi, so will in theory be different to the likes of a pure freighter that seems to be what we’d normally get? Then again, the 757-200CF was mentioned in the last dev blog so I’m not sure if something like this would fall under a similar category to that?
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Being a menace here but done some more reading, it doesn’t appear that Boeing ever did a -100 combi variant, this was something they only started with the -200M.
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Also reading through one of the planes info on planespotters.net, it shows it was a 747-100 before being converted into a 747-100F - so this makes it a 747-100SF
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Changed it in the main body but left it alone in the header. Might get a bit confusing if I add lots of different letters 
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