Will this be the last chance for passengers to fly the B747-400 before retirement? The second daily flight will be with the A340.

The aircraft is capable of dropping tens of thousands of liters of water or fire retardant in a single mission, making it one ...

A Boeing aircraft in Indonesia caught fire upon take ... Video footage from multiple angles shows the right wing of the Boeing 747-400 briefly igniting into flames as it takes off from the airport ...

Meanwhile, Atlas Air operates a significant fleet of 747 freighters, including both the 747-400F and newer 747-8Fs. According ...

Ship 6301 served as the prototype for the 747-400 and made its first flight on April 29, 1988. Pratt & Whitney then used the aircraft as a test bed for its PW4000 series engines, which would power ...

While many airlines around the world have stopped operating the 747, the freighter version remains one of the great ...

The aircraft before them ... Seven years later, I was a passenger on the inaugural 747-400 flight from New York to Tokyo. Everyone onboard was given a commemorative sake cup.

NASA's Gulfstream G-III will use lidar technology to scan contrails of GE's Boeing 747 An inflight engine failure suffered by a cargo 747-400 involved a smaller version of the PW4000 that failed ...

The aircraft, Delta Ship 6301, was the first Boeing 747-400 ever built and entered service with Northwest Airlines in 1989. It flew for Delta until September 2015 after logging more than 61 ...