The final production 747-8F, for Atlas Air, is photographed during pre-delivery acceptance tests.
Credit: Paul Weatherman/Boeing
The Boeing 747 program comes to an end with the departure from Everett, Washington of the final new-build 747-8F freighter to Atlas Air on Feb. 1, but the current active fleet of more than 400 aircraft continues to illustrate the fundamental resilience of the baseline 1960s design. The program’s...
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