Special Freighter, operated by Terra Avia. This modified passenger aircraft is designed for cargo transport, featuring a ...

Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter — the biggest plane the company has ever built — successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.

An Atlas Air Boeing 747 freighter was involved in an incident almost a year ago in which the flight crew was forced to abort ...

Boeing Co. would update its decades-old 747 jumbo for the large freighter market with cutting-edge technology borrowed from the 787 Dreamliner: powerful, new fuel-efficient engines.

UK cargo operator One Air is venturing into scheduled services with its Boeing 747-400 freighter fleet, opening flights ...

Just in time for the holidays, UPS got its own eagerly-anticipated package—a brand new 747 8F freighter. On December 14, the $419 million dollar plane was ferried from the Boeing plant and ...

Boeing will deliver its first new 747-8 jumbo freighter around Oct. 12 after resolving a financial squabble between initial customer Cargolux and engine supplier GE, a board member for the carrier ...

The 747-8 Freighter has flown more than 1,200 flights and 3,400 hours since its first flight Feb. 8, 2010.

It doesn’t have the capacity of a 747 freighter, but Boeing at least has unfilled orders for 45 of the 777 freighters from nine different customers, including FedEx (FDX).

Nevertheless, the latest 747-8 version is set to grace the skies for years, chiefly as a freighter, having outlasted European Airbus' (AIR.PA) double-decker A380 passenger jet in production.

When the new Boeing 747-8 Freighter flies from Seattle to the Paris Air Show, it will mark the first time a commercial aircraft has crossed the Atlantic Ocean using biofuel.

News of the 747 freighter sale surfaced in U.S. District Court records filed in Seattle in connection with a dispute between Boeing and a Russian cargo airline.