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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.
Boeing 747SR-100/SUD: 2 1986 2006 Boeing 747-200B: 23 1971 2007 2 1973 Converted into freighters and transferred to JAL Cargo. Boeing 747-200F: 8 1991 2008 Boeing 747-200SF: 3 1974 2007 Boeing 747-300: 16 1983 2009 Boeing 747-400: 28 1990 2011 6 2005 Converted into freighters and transferred to JAL Cargo. Boeing 747-400BCF: 6 2006 2010 Boeing ...
An Iran Air 747-100B, the last 747-100 in passenger service The 747-100B model was developed from the -100SR, using its stronger airframe and landing gear design. The type had an increased fuel capacity of 48,070 US gal (182,000 L), allowing for a 5,000-nautical-mile (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) range with a typical 452-passenger payload, and an ...
Boeing 727-100: 59 1964 1994 Unknown One crashed as Flight 625. Boeing 727-200: 125 1968 2002 Boeing 737-800 Boeing 757-200 [27] Boeing 737-100: 2 1987 1988 Unknown Former AirCal fleet. [citation needed] Boeing 737-200: 21 1991 Unknown Boeing 737-300: 8 1992 Unknown Boeing 737-400: 14 2013 2015 Unknown Former US Airways fleet.
The Pratt & Whitney JT9D high-bypass turbofan engine was developed for the Boeing 747. The JT9D program was launched in September 1965 and the first engine was tested in December 1966. It received its FAA certification in May 1969 and entered service in January 1970 on the Boeing 747.
One Boeing 747-400 originally destined to fly for Northwest Airlines was sold to United Airlines which was in service until United retired its 747 fleet in 2017. Northwest was looking for manufacturers to discuss the replacement of their 100, 110 and 125 seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9 aircraft, with an average age of 35 years. [2] [3]
Pan Am's inaugural 747 service on the evening of January 21, 1970, was delayed for several hours by engine failure affecting the scheduled Clipper Young America. Clipper Victor was substituted for the flight from New York John F. Kennedy to London Heathrow ( Clipper Victor was destroyed seven years later in the Tenerife air disaster , in a ...
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) are two extensively modified Boeing 747 airliners that NASA used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters. One (N905NA) is a 747-100 model, while the other (N911NA) is a short-range 747-100SR. Both are now retired.