According to ch-aviation, the last Boeing 747-100 in active operation is currently flown by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. This aircraft was originally delivered to TWA on October 22 ...

A number of Boeing 747s have also been converted into luxury business aircraft.. Powered by four ... in Seattle in September 1968, the Boeing 747-100 originated from Boeing’s failed entry ...

The longest range raid of Israel’s attacks on Iran so far has destroyed an Iranian Air Force refueling aircraft, the Israeli ...

The German airline wanted a two-person cockpit for the 747-100 but only got it 20 years later on the -400. Its engineers wrote in internal memos that the 747 was “not the beginning of a new era ...

"It was pretty grody," Hagedorn said inside the mammoth aircraft on Thursday. Boeing rolled the 747-100 out of its Everett wide-body aircraft plant on Sept. 30, 1968, ushering in the jumbo-jet era.

But 50 years on the classic design was being replaced by less gas-guzzling aircraft. Aviation enthusiast Dan Chang and two friends rescued an original BA 747 cockpit and an entire upper deck busin ...

A string of speakers representing companies that have relied on the 747 came to celebrate the aircraft. “The 747 is a symbol for many, many things, and above all, I think it’s a symbol for the ...