The US president flies on Air Force One. Other world leaders in other countries also have their own official aircraft.

The factory in Everett, Washington, where Boeing built the 747 for more than 50 years is so big that clouds used to form inside above the production line. Some say that you would occasionally see a ...

Under the roof of the world's largest building by volume, the longest plane in the world has just rolled off the assembly line. Monocle travelled to Washington to check on its progress. Facts and ...

Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...

The United States Air Force has taken delivery of a second decommissioned Boeing 747-8 from commercial carrier Lufthansa at a ...

SEATTLE/PARIS (Reuters) -Boeing's 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic "Jumbo Jet", revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as "Queen of the Skies" ended by more ...

Boeing's launch of the Boeing 747 in 1969 was a huge step forward for long-haul airline travel. It was the first wide-body airplane of its time to comfortably seat 400 passengers and could fly farther ...

Some old planes never die, instead they end up as hotel suites. The latest to do so are two Boeing 747s – one previously flew for Pan Am while the other is an ex-Japan Airlines jumbo – now offering ...