Last 747 rolls out of Everett

[Tulpa | 3,537]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/boeing-747-production-is-ending-with-shift-to-twin-engine-jets.html

EVERETT, Wash. − Boeing’s final 747 rolled out of the company’s cavernous factory north of Seattle Tuesday night as airlines’ push for more fuel-efficient planes ends the more than half-century production run of the jumbo jet.

The 1,574th — and last — 747 will later be flown by a Boeing test pilot, painted and handed over to cargo and charter carrier Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings early next year.

“It’s a very surreal time, obviously,” said Kim Smith, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s 747 and 767s programs out of the assembly plant here. “For the first time in well over 50 years we will not have a 747 in this facility.”

 

Sad, but not surprising. Airlines have long preferred more fuel efficient twin-engined planes (if they could get away with it, they'd fly single engine jets.)

[Tenjikuronin | 1,755]

I visited the Boeing factory in Everett back in the 90s - that is a huge building.

[Tenjikuronin | 1,755]

The last 747 left the factory. From flightaware the flight track.

 

[Estil | 1,265]