As per data from aviation analytics company Cirium for April, the shortest scheduled Boeing 747 passenger routes measure in at under 1,000 miles. In fact, the shortest is just 667 miles (579 NM ...

Sure, aircraft like the Airbus A380 may have full-length double decks, but the 747's iconic profile remains one of a kind. Of course, the shape wasn't meant just to turn heads; it came from real ...

Today, with hindsight being 20/20, we know how the Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel. But that was anything but a sure thing back when it was still on the drawing board in the mid-1960s.

The president, starting with George H.W. Bush, has been flying aboard a Boeing 747-200 — Air Force designation VC-25A — since 1987, but that's going to change by 2027.