Some 55 years after the first commercial flight of the Boeing 747, four airlines still fly passenger versions, including ...

One version of the plane that never made it off the drawing boards was the 747 Trijet. In the 1960s and 1970s, the company toyed with building a three-engine commercial plane. This would have seen ...

The world's largest building by volume was planned to be constructed in Everett, Washington. In 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100s at a price amounting to $525 million. It was an excellent ...

Only three airlines are operating scheduled passenger flights on the 55th anniversary of the 747's first revenue-generating ...

The Seattle manufacturer did not have a plant large enough to assemble the 747 so constructed one afresh; it was the largest building by volume ever built. The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to ...

The Boeing 747 jumbo is one of the most famous planes in aviation history. The plane, referred to by many as the "Queen of the Skies," helped revolutionize air travel for the masses when it ...