The 747-400 and 747-400ER have the largest range of the -400, with a capacity to fly between 7,285 and 7,585 nautical miles ...

The Boeing 747 and its four engines once made it the airliner of choice for international flights. So how much fuel do those ...

Experience a VIP flight on a Boeing 747-400 Combi traveling from London to Beijing. This aircraft, which previously served various governmental flights, has recently been activated after two years of ...

The last Boeing 747 trundled out of the factory and was handed over to its new operators. It’s the end of an era. And it’s not. Some of the big birds will fly well past 2030.

But even Boeing now appears to concede that the 747 is not likely to continue to be an option that airlines want for passenger service. Instead, airlines have increasingly moved toward two-engine ...

For decades, the Boeing 747 was the Queen of the Skies. But the glamorous, double-decker jumbo jet that revolutionized air travel and shrank the globe could be nearing the end of the line.

Boeing gave its iconic 747 jumbo jet a grand sendoff today, marking the end of a 55-year era for airplane manufacturing but vowing that the “Queen of the Skies” will continue its reign for ...

The Boeing 747 set upon its first commercial flight 50 years ago on Saturday, lifting off from a drizzly Tarmac outside Seattle. In the decades since, it spent a half-century traversing the skies ...

A decade later, Boeing’s main rival, Airbus, debuted the A380, which can carry more passengers than the 747. But Airbus struggled to sell the plane and announced the end of production in 2019.

Boeing has delivered its last 747 jumbo jet, more than a half-century after production of the plane began. Although many 747s are still in use — and will probably remain so for decades — the ...

It instead went on to serve Boeing as a dedicated test aircraft, first for the 747, and later for other Boeing jets such as the 757 and 777. By the time it retired in 1993, the airplane had ...