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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.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft N905NA, still in American Airlines livery, with Enterprise in 1978. The first aircraft, a Boeing 747-123 registered N905NA, was originally manufactured for American Airlines. With a decline in air traffic and failure to fill their 747s, American Airlines sold it to NASA.
December 9, 1977 Enterprise, approach and landing flight tests Armstrong Flight Research Center, lasted 3 hours, 37 minutes; March 10–13, 1978 Enterprise, ferry flight from Armstrong Flight Research Center to Marshall Space Flight Center (via Ellington Air Force Base) for vertical ground vibration tests at MSFC.
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The latest nation to take ownership of the Queen of the Skies is Egypt, which was the mystery buyer of an old 747 from Boeing in 2021.
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%.
When the last 747 is complete, it will be the 1,574th jumbo jet Boeing has made in the over 54 years of the program. Boeing's iconic 747 will leave the assembly line for the last time this year.
Boeing 747-100SR. Fixed Wing Shuttle Carrier Aircraft: Retired (2) 1977-2012 Armstrong Flight Research Center: Armstrong Flight Research Center: Registered as N905NA (which is a 747-100 model that was acquired from American Airlines in 1974) and N911NA (a 747-100SR model purchased from Japan Airlines in 1988). In 2013, Space Center Houston ...