The 747-400 made its entry into service in February 1989 and attracted huge interest from carriers across the globe. Boeing's ...

The 747-8F was the last-ever aircraft to be delivered, going to Atlas Air. There were also a handful of short-range models produced, primarily going to Japanese airlines to use on domestic routes.

Four Rolls Royce engines power the giant 747 aircraft, hanging off wings that span about 211 feet—and in the center of the cockpit are four ivory-colored thrust levers, one for each engine.

A spokesperson for Boeing, Caroline Hutcheson, confirmed to CNN that the two 747-8 aircraft were originally destined for the now defunct Russian air carrier Transaero, which went bankrupt in ...

EARLIER THIS MONTH, a decommissioned Boeing 747 airliner was towed down a Dutch motorway to its final destination as a novelty hotel complex. Its owners reckon they can turn the jumbo-jet into a ...

But 50 years after work began on the first 747, airlines are moving away from jumbo jets. Delta and United, the last two U.S. airlines to fly 747s, plan to retire their Boeing jumbo jets by the ...

Boeing Co. reported a $234 million loss Wednesday for the second quarter, based on previously announced costs for the 787 Dreamliner, the 747 airliner and the KC-46 tanker.

It might be surprising to know that the Air Force's VC-25A "Air Force One" (AFO) and the Boeing 747-200B jumbo jet (the base level aircraft that the VC-25A is derived from) do not have as much in ...

A Boeing 747 airliner descended toward LAX Wednesday morning, a fitting backdrop for employees at Vought Aircraft Industries a few miles away celebrating their contribution to the ubiquitous plane.

Boeing once studied turning a 747 widebody airliner into a flying aircraft carrier.; The plane would have carried up to 10 “microfighters” into combat. The concept was never built out, but a ...

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

A spokesperson for Boeing, Caroline Hutcheson, confirmed to CNN that the two 747-8 aircraft were originally destined for the now defunct Russian air carrier Transaero, which went bankrupt in ...