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As of February 2025, there were 426 Boeing 747 aircraft in active airline service, comprising 1 747-100, 2 747SPs, 16 747-200s, 1 747-300, 256 747-400s, and 150 747-8s. These aircraft are listed by airline operators and variant in the following table.
On April 21, 2017, Kalitta Air retired its final Boeing 747-200F from service. This was one of the relatively few then remaining in service. Twenty-six other Boeing 747 aircraft are still active in Kalitta's fleet. Kalitta Maintenance operates a maintenance, repair, and overhaul facility at Oscoda–Wurtsmith Airport in Iosco County, Michigan.
Ordered by Chicago and Southern Air Lines were delivered to Delta due to their merger in 1953. Convair CV-880: 17 1960 1973 Boeing 727-200: One written off as Flight 954. Curtiss C-46 Commando: 5 1957 1967 Lockheed L-100 [64] Douglas DC-3: 21 1940 1960 Convair CV-240 family [65] 3 Curtiss C-46 Commando
Although not the longest by distance, Air China's New York service is the longest passenger 747 trek by flight time at about 17 hours. The longer-ranged Lufthansa and Korean routes reach about 14 ...
After the aircraft's introduction with Pan Am in 1970, other airlines that had bought the 747 to stay competitive began to put their own 747s into service. [117] Boeing estimated that half of the early 747 sales were to airlines desiring the aircraft's long range rather than its payload capacity.
Boeing declined to detail how many employees worked on the 747 in its final year, but Smith said all were transferred to other jobs or voluntarily retired. The last 747 rolled out on Dec. 7 ...
The airport is operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation [4] and covering 7,627 acres (11.92 sq mi; 30.87 km 2). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] O'Hare has non-stop flights to 249 destinations in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the North Atlantic region as of Summer 2024.
Over the past 13 years at Detroit's city airport under short-term leases, Avflight has provided essential services to the airport's flight operations, including fueling, ground handling, and ...