A Boeing 747 takes off from Seattle in January 1970. Boeing said goodbye to an icon on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, when it delivered the jumbo jet to cargo company Atlas Air. AP/FileThousands of people – including many Boeing workers and former employees, but also representatives of airlines and the aviation industry – gathered at the company’s plant in Everett, Washington, to attend a ceremony that was broadcast live on from Internet.
Passengers relax aboard the new Boeing Pan Am 747 (Bettmann) transport aircraft
Flight attendants pose in their uniforms on the stairs aboard the new Boeing Pan Am 747 transport plane (Bettmann)
Boeing 747 SP (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
1968: Life-size model of the Boeing 747 passenger plane. Alan Band/Keystone/Getty Images
The crew of a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet pose in front of the plane’s nose at London’s Heathrow Airport in England on January 12, 1970. This 360-seat aircraft was the first of its kind to complete a transatlantic crossing. AP/File
The Boeing 747, the world’s largest passenger airliner, was unveiled to the public on September 30, 1969. Seating 490 passengers, this $20 million aircraft was delivered to airlines in October. The ship weighed 700,000 pounds and had 10 cabin seats (Bettmann)
Everett, Washington: The Boeing 747, the world’s largest passenger plane, is unveiled to the public (Bettmann)
In 1977, two Boeing 747 planes collided on the runway at Tenerife Los Rodeos airport, killing 583 people, making it the worst accident in aviation history. Tony Comiti/Sygma via Getty Images/Archive
American pilot Lynn Rippelmeyer, the first woman to pilot a Boeing 747 across the Atlantic Ocean, in front of a PEOPLExpress plane, July 20, 1984. P. Shirley/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Archive
In this file photo taken on April 17, 2012, the space shuttle Discovery docks to the rear of NASA 905 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, during a flyby of the nation’s capital on its voyage. final to his place of retirement in Washington, DC. Pete Marovich / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked by Shiite Muslims identified as members of Islamic Jihad on June 14, 1985 (Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images/File)
Boeing employees work on the fuselage section of the 747-8 Intercontinental airliner, Boeing’s new passenger jet at the Boeing factory February 12, 2011 in Everett, Washington. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images/File
A Pan Am Boeing 747 at London’s Heathrow Airport after its first commercial transatlantic flight from New York on January 22, 1970. AP/Lawrence Harris/File
The Space Shuttle Enterprise prototype is assembled on the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft prior to a test approach and landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, 1977. Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Former US President Bill Clinton speaks on the phone aboard Air Force One on July 17, 1993 in Missouri. The modified Boeing 747 was first used by John F. Kennedy in 1962 and was discontinued in 1998. Diana Walker/Liaison/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Workers load an Air China Boeing 747-200 bound for Frankfurt at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport on December 18, 2005 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. China Photos/Getty Images/File
Ed Force One, the Boeing 747 airliner of British heavy metal rockers Iron Maiden, flies past after takeoff while being piloted by the band’s lead singer Bruce Dickinson from the ILA 2016 Berlin Airshow on June 1, 2016 in Schönefeld, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images/File
An image of Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, known as the “Father of the 747,” appears on the exterior of the latest Boeing 747 aircraft, at a ceremony to commemorate its delivery, at the Boeing Museum of the Future of Flight in Everett, Washington, on January 31, 2023. Jason Redmond / AFP
In this file photo taken on February 7, 2020, a Boeing 747 aircraft serving as Air Force One is seen on the runway at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. SAUL LOEB / AFP
This photo taken on December 7, 2022 and released by Boeing on January 31, 2023 shows the last Boeing 747-8 leaving the company’s widebody aircraft factory in Everett, Washington prior to delivery to Atlas Air in early 2023. Paul WEATHERMAN / Boeing / AFP / File
Thousands of current and former employees gathered Jan. 31 at Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington, in the northwestern United States, for a final send-off celebration on the sidelines of the delivery of a Boeing 747-8 cargo plane to Atlas. Air. Paul WEATHERMAN / Boeing / AFP / File
Current and former employees, customers and guests participate in a ceremony to mark the delivery of the last Boeing 747 aircraft, at the Boeing Future of Flight Museum in Everett, Washington, on January 31, 2023. Jason Redmond / AFP
Artist Jeff Barlow of Boeing’s creative department displays his sketch of the latest Boeing 747 aircraft at a ceremony to commemorate its delivery, at the Boeing Museum of the Future of Flight in Everett, Wash., on January 31, 2023. Jason Redmond / AFP
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