The 1,547 examples of the 747 Boeing made have flown over the years a combined 118 million hours, meaning some 23 million flight cycles, as per Boeing’s statistics. The last #QueenOfTheSkies ...

Kim Smith, Boeing's VP and general manager for the 747 and 767 programs, revealed that the model's production line shut down as workers finished building different parts for the last plane.

Boeing will deliver its last 747 model jet to cargo carrier Atlas Air Tuesday after over 50 years and 1,574 jets made.. Boeing planned to hand over the cargo plane, which rolled off the Everett ...

The final 747 jumbo jet rolled out of Boeing’s Everett plant late Tuesday, marking a milestone for both the iconic airplane and the giant assembly plant that was built for the jet in the late 1960s.

Boeing's 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic "Jumbo Jet", revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as "Queen of the Skies" ended by more efficient twinjet ...

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 ...