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The company was founded in 1964 and originally known as Executive Jet Airways. The name was later changed to Executive Jet Aviation (EJA), and again in 2002 to NetJets, after Berkshire Hathaway purchased it in 1998. NetJets was the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company in the world. [7]
The Boeing Business Jet 747-8i is one of the largest private jets in the world used primarily by governments and the world's most elite people.
The Praetor 600 and its Praetor 500 sister jet have one of the world's best safety records, according to an analysis of safety records by charter broker Stratos Jet Charters.
Heaviest aircraft and most capable transport, destroyed in 2022: Airbus Beluga: 13 Sep 1994: Outsize cargo: 5: 61.46 yards (56.20 meters) 48.99 yards (44.80 meters) 152.55 t: 1,961.93 cubic yards (1,500.00 cubic meters) Airbus A300 derivative, largest volume until the Dreamlifter Airbus A380: 27 Apr 2005: Airliner: 254: 79.51 yards (72.70 meters)
As of November 2024, there were 429 Boeing 747 aircraft in active airline service, comprising 1 747-100, 2 747SPs, 16 747-200s, 1 747-300, 258 747-400s, and 151 747-8s. [1] These aircraft are listed by airline operators and variant in the following table.
Dassault is designing the jet with the largest cabin of its class and incorporating fighter jet tech in the cockpit of its new $75 million flagship.
It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner. Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was announced in 1990 to challenge the dominance of the Boeing 747 in the long-haul market. The then-designated A3XX project was presented in 1994; Airbus launched the €9.5–billion ($10.7–billion ...
The long-awaited 777X, the world’s largest twin-engine jet, is expected to enter service in 2025, so this concept exists purely on paper for now. But Lufthansa, which will be among the first ...