The Boeing 747 family of Jumbos proved to be a very popular ultra-large widebody freighter. Most of the 747s still flying today are freighter variants or freighter conversions from passenger aircraft.

Boeing has completed initial airworthiness testing on its 747-8 Freighter. This milestone enables test engineers to be on board during future flights and allows the remaining two 747-8 Freighter test ...

The Boeing 747-8 Freighter - which has been ordered by DAE and Emirates - successfully took to the sky for the first time yesterday before more than 5,000 employees, customers, suppliers and community ...

EVERETT, Wash. -- It's 20 feet longer, with a brand new wing and new high efficiency General Electric engines. But Boeing's brand new 747-8 Freighter has run into a headwind with big customers, and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. There wasn’t much fanfare or ceremony on Wednesday when ...

The origin of the Boeing 747 program was to build an extra-large military transport for the United States Air Force. Boeing lost to Lockheed, which went on to build the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy for the Air ...

The fastest Boeing found on the flightline today is more than just that, it’s also the last Queen of the Skies to ever take ...

Two security staffers at Hong Kong International Airport were killed when a Boeing 747 cargo plane skidded off a runway, crashed through a permitter fence, hitting their patrol vehicle and falling ...

SHENZHEN - A second auction will be held on Taobao, Alibaba's e-commerce platform, on Thursday, for the third of three Boeing 747 freighters, after it was not sold with the other two planes during a ...

When passengers watched a Boeing 747-400 push back from a gate in the 1990s and early 2000s, they were looking at an aircraft ...

DUBLIN, Sept. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AerCap Holdings N.V. (AER) today announced it has delivered the first two Boeing 777-300ERSF Passenger-to-Freighter ("P2F") converted aircraft to Kalitta Air, ...