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Boeing 747-230B in Lufthansa livery on display at the Technikmuseum Speyer in Germany Boeing 747-128 on display at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace in France. As increasing numbers of "classic" 747-100 and 747-200 series aircraft have been retired, some have been used for other uses such as museum displays.
The aircraft involved, registered as B-18255, (originally registered as B-1866), MSN 21843, was the only Boeing 747-200 passenger aircraft left in China Airlines's fleet at the time. The plane was delivered to the airline on 2 August 1979.
As of January 2025, there were 427 Boeing 747 aircraft in active airline service, comprising 1 747-100, 2 747SPs, 16 747-200s, 1 747-300, 256 747-400s, and 151 747-8s. These aircraft are listed by airline operators and variant in the following table.
SX-OAA, named Olympic Zeus, was an Olympic Boeing 747-200. [1] [3] The 747-200 model featured more powerful engines and a higher maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) than the previous 747-100 model. [10] One of the principal technologies that enabled an aircraft as large as the 747 to takeoff was the high-bypass turbofan engine. [11]
Kalitta Air Flight 207 (K4207/CKS207) was a scheduled cargo flight between John F. Kennedy Airport to Bahrain International Airport with a technical stopover at Brussels. [1] [2] On May 25, 2008, the Boeing 747-200 suffered a bird strike and overran runway 20 (later renumbered to 19 [3]) during takeoff at Brussels Airport, causing the aircraft to split into three large pieces.
Korean Air Lines Flight 015 was a Boeing 747-200 operating a scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles International Airport, in Los Angeles, California, to Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea with an intermediate stop in Anchorage, Alaska, that crashed while attempting to land on November 19th, 1980.
Without engine thrust, a 747-200 has a glide ratio of roughly 15:1, meaning it can glide forward 15 kilometres for every kilometre it drops. The flight crew quickly determined that the aircraft was capable of gliding for 23 minutes and covering 91 nautical miles (169 km) from its flight level of 37,000 feet (11,000 m). [ 5 ]
Boeing 747-300: 16 1983 2009 Boeing 747-400: 28 1990 2011 6 2005 Converted into freighters and transferred to JAL Cargo. Boeing 747-400BCF: 6 2006 2010 Boeing 747-400D: 8 1991 2011 Launch customer. Boeing 747-400F: 2 1991 2011 Boeing 767-200: 4 1985 2011 Boeing 767-300: 20 1986 2021 Launch customer. Boeing 767-300ERF: 3 2007 2010 Boeing 777-200 ...