SEATTLE -- A Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 delivers a soft puff of white smoke as the jet completes its second-to-last landing ever Thursday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. On Friday, the jet ...

EAGAN, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA) today is retiring its last 747-200 from scheduled revenue service. The 430-seat aircraft, which most recently operated NWA’s Tokyo ...

It’s the end of the line for Northwest Airlines’s last Everett-built 747-200. The Minnesota-based carrier retired its final 747-200 from service today, following a flight from Tokyo to Seattle. The ...

Boeing 747 aircraft are still being sought after as passenger and freighter aircraft, as well as backups for Air Force One, by countries from the United States to Russia.

The first presidential aircraft entered service in 1944, and the current generation of Air Force One 747-200 aircraft has been around since 1990. Boeing is contracted to build a new generation of Air ...

OMAHA, Nebraska—A four-decade-old Boeing 747-200 simulator that was headed for disposal has been refurbished to train the U.S. Air Force’s Doomsday plane pilots as part of an effort to increase the ...

Few aircraft have captured the imagination of travelers and aviation fans like the Boeing 747. Dubbed the “Queen of the Skies,” the 747 transformed long-haul travel when it entered service in 1970, ...