This is probably too old for nearly everyone. Back in 1976-1979 I was a regular traveler on the B747SP, which remains the single best flying experience i ever had. Pan Am, among other places flew it JFK-BAH then as part of the famous flights ))! and 002, the round the world flights which used BAH as a stop for a few years.

However my personal second most poignant B747SP is that of SN EP-5AD the last aircraft delivered to IranAir, but actually executed after the revolution. I was then an officer of the bank that financed the aircraft and had previously been based in Tehran. After the revolution I had to go to Tehran to execute the transaction. That was exciting in all the wrong ways! I did get out and that aircraft one perhaps the last SP in scheduled service.

The most poignant story is a 1976 one I was booked to leave on a PanAm 747SP from Beirut to Tehran (that flight does not appear in timetables of the era so I think it was a special arrangement related to IranAir's commitment to buy them, as stated above from 1979. In any evert the Beirut airport area was under fire and even getting to the airport was an excercise of our driver switching icons at roadblocks in a stolen Chevrolet impala. The airport was a mess so several of us who were booked and some who weren't stormed the airplane and rushed in, the airstairs were removed and the plane suddenly accelerated and took off from a taxiway, luckily the B747SP was very lightly loaded and was vastly overpowered to begin with. After takeoff passports were examined and it was decided the only place everyone could enter was Greece, so the plane went to Athens. Needless to say my planned transfer to Beirut did not happen.

On the point of trivia, does anyone have any idea what the exact date of both of these events could have been.
I do have the dates from the passport stamps. Hints: both these events were covered in aviation news at the times.