2023 IMAGES/VIDEO: the last-built Boeing 747 Jumbo ever...

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https://www.airdatanews.com/final-boein ... n-everett/

Boeing has begun final assembly of the last 747 at its plant in Everett, Washington. The aircraft is a 747-8F, a freighter variant of the “Jumbo”, which is part of an order for four units by Atlas Air.

At the end of May, according to Aviation & Week, the airframer joined the left wing of the aircraft, ending a process that had been going on for more than 50 years since the first 747 went into production.

From now on, Boeing will finalize systems, install engines and begin testing ahead of delivery to Atlas Air, scheduled for the end of 2022.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news ... 8f-by-ye22

0.08.2022 - 11:16 UTC
Atlas Air (5Y, New York JFK) parent Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has confirmed in its quarterly report
that it will take its three remaining B747-8Fs, the world's last new-build B747s,
from Boeing (BOE, Washington National) by the end of the year.

"During the second quarter, we took delivery of the first of our four new B747-8Fs.
The remaining three aircraft are expected to be delivered throughout the balance of this year.

As announced in February 2022, all four of these aircraft are placed with customers under attractive long-term agreements," the holding disclosed.

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...not sure whether the last last last Boeing 747 Jumbo will be delivered in October 2022 or later ,
but this is to become her identity:

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquir ... ntrytxt=US
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https://www.abcdlist.nl/boeing_seattle_07.html

67150 747-8F 1574 N863GT

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August 24, 2022

In recent days, two images have surfaced showing a 747 freighter at the Everett facility.

The first claims to be the aircraft that will receive the registration number N863GT, but there is no reliable source on this.

The other photo, published by Paine Airport,
which tracks the movement of aircraft manufactured by Boeing,
shows a 747 in an different stage of production,
in the area of ​​systems installation.

...see
https://www.airdatanews.com/end-of-boei ... is-coming/
for the pictures.

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...not sure whether the last last last Boeing 747 Jumbo will be delivered in October 2022 or later ?...

I bet the LAST 747 to be delivered is the 2nd VC-25B. We'll have to wait decades to see how it works out, but it's not far fetched to think the VC-25s will be the LAST 747s to fly.

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http://kpae.blogspot.com/2022/09/paine- ... er-23.html

The last 747, line 1574 for Atlas Air, begins final body join on October 3.

https://www.facebook.com/10005435812846 ... 704202019/

The Ultimate, Final 747 (line number 1574), is still in 3 major separate sections (forward, wings and aft) in the factory. It has yet to be brought together to make the last 747 to be built.

If 1574 were to “roll out” of the Everett factory September 30, 2022,
it would be 54 years to the day from the initial roll out of “The City Of Everett”,
the world’s first Wide Body commercial aircraft. (September 30, 1968)

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https://www.airlive.net/roll-out-of-the ... ver-built/

https://twitter.com/mattcawby/status/15 ... 9546174464

Paine Airport
@mattcawby
747-8F N862GT rolled out of the factory tonight. The last 747, line 1574, entered final body join on September 29

http://kpae.blogspot.com/2022/10/paine- ... ber-3.html

Atlas Air 747-8F N862GT was moved out of the factory tonight. The next and last 747, line 1574, entered final body join on September 29.

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http://kpae.blogspot.com/2022/10/paine- ... er-20.html

Thursday, October 20, 2022
Paine Field October 20

Atlas Air 747-8F N862GT departing on the B-1 flight.

...only the last last last ever built Boeing 747 Jumbo,
which is N863GT, still has to be rolled-out for her first flights....

The VC-25B's are conversions...
With hindsight two wholly new ones should have been built after all...
https://www.defenseone.com/business/202 ... al/366186/

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http://kpae.blogspot.com/2022/10/paine- ... er-25.html

Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Paine Field October 25

The next and last 747, line 1574 for Atlas Air, was moved from final body join to the slant position tonight in the 40-22.

https://twitter.com/mattcawby/status/15 ... 9470064641

The next and last 747, line 1574 for Atlas Air, was moved from final body join to the slant position in the 40-22 tonight at 7 PM
Paine Airport
@mattcawby

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....the pictures at
https://twitter.com/mattcawby/status/15 ... 9470064641
and
https://twitter.com/mattcawby/status/15 ... 9546174464

...are rather similar...

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https://www.gtreview.com/news/americas/ ... llar-loan/

Final Boeing 747s to be delivered after US Exim guarantees multi-million-dollar loan

24-10-2022 /

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) has announced it will guarantee a US$304mn loan from JP Morgan to Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings.

The loan, approved on October 13, will support the last deliveries of the Boeing 747 model aircraft to the borrower’s subsidiary, Atlas Air Inc, for international use. US Exim will guarantee 85% of the net contract price.

Two 747s are expected to be delivered this year, one in November 2022 and the other in December 2022, as part of a move expected by US Exim to support 1,700 jobs and benefit suppliers nationwide.

The US Exim-guaranteed aircraft will be operated by Atlas Air, which will provide pilots, maintenance and insurance as part of its services to a foreign-end user on contract, says a US Exim spokesperson.

Although Atlas Air Worldwide is a US-based company, the aircraft must qualify as an export, they say.

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https://www.aerotelegraph.com/letzte-bo ... sgeliefert
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https://www-aerotelegraph-com.translate ... r_pto=wapp

Last Boeing 747 will be delivered in January

Production of the jumbo jet will soon end.
Boeing has now handed over the penultimate copy to Atlas Air and Kuehne + Nagel.
The last Boeing 747 will follow in January 2023.

11/23/22 - 11:11

It bears the registration number N862GT.
Boeing has delivered the penultimate Boeing 747 ever produced.
The Boeing 747-8F with the serial number 67149 is now owned by Atlas Air,
but flies under a long-term charter agreement for the Swiss logistics group Kuehne + Nagel ,
whose livery the four-engine cargo plane also bears.


The operator calls the machine Inspire.
The final Boeing – a 747-8F with registration N863GT and serial number 67150 – will also go to Atlas Air and Kuehne + Nagel.
The Swiss company announced that it would name this aircraft Empower.

Almost 1600 copies shipped

The last jumbo jet was originally supposed to be delivered in 2022.
But at the beginning of November, Atlas Air announced that the date would be postponed to the first quarter of 2023 .
At the request of aeroTELEGRAPH,
a spokeswoman for Kuehne + Nagel now stated that it should be ready in January 2023.

Then the production history of the jumbo jet ends -
almost 54 years after the first flight of the Boeing 747 in February 1969.

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Dec. 6, 2022,

The final Boeing 747, line No. 1,574, rolls out of Boeing’s Everett factory tonight.

The plane was built for Atlas Air, which is scheduled to take delivery in early 2023 – almost 52 years after the first 747 entered service with Pan Am in January 1970.

“It’s kind of a sad occasion,” said Jon Sutter, the grandson of legendary Boeing aircraft designer Joe Sutter, the father of the 747.

Jon Sutter – who now works at Boeing in the same Boeing Field building where his grandfather designed the Queen of the Skies – hadn’t been born when the first 747 flew.

And his grandfather, who passed away in 2016, didn’t live to see the end of the program he’s most closely associated with.

However, even with the end of the 747 program, Joe Sutter’s legacy lives on, his grandson said.

“His baby, Boeing, is still going,” Jon Sutter said in a recent interview with LNA. “You can see his influence in every other plane out there.”

https://leehamnews.com/2022/12/06/last- ... ry-tonight is certainly worth a click

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...see the pictures at
https://www.aeroflap.com.br/novas-fotos ... produzido/

Here N863GT (LN 1574) is still in the hangar. But not for long...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v80sNtv2Zvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgfAaiW13A

https://twitter.com/jonostrower

https://twitter.com/mattcawby

Here is RC704, the final 747. It was rolled out of the factory tonight at 8:05 PM

https://twitter.com/mattcawby/status/16 ... 7648084993

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=9nOvy7jGNWg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmEF7p2XkAE7mlf?format=jpg

https://twitter.com/DjsAviation/status/ ... 5060153345

https://twitter.com/DjsAviation/status/ ... 7764362240

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmEqI70XkAALRK8?format=jpg

https://djsaviation.net/final-boeing-74 ... -revealed/