but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 — are still some of the most popular aircraft around.

The full list is absolutely delightful to peruse and imagine scenarios for why and how those things ended up in there.

Korean Air has stolen the crown for the world’s longest current Boeing 747 scheduled passenger route from German carrier ...

It might be surprising to know that the Air Force's VC-25A "Air Force One" (AFO) and the Boeing 747-200B jumbo jet (the base level aircraft that the VC-25A is derived from) do not have as much in ...

Meanwhile, Atlas Air operates a significant fleet of 747 freighters, including both the 747-400F and newer 747-8Fs. According ...

While many airlines around the world have stopped operating the 747, the freighter version remains one of the great ...

When the first Boeing 747 rolled from the hangar in Everett, Washington, 50 years ago, onlookers were stunned. The aircraft before them, gleaming in the morning sunshine, was more than double the ...

The 747 looms large over the entrance gate to Delta's Flight Museum. The museum is housed in a pair of historic hangars at Delta Air Lines headquarters on the northern edge of Atlanta's airport.

A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used ... A chunk of the old aircraft’s upper deck, which includes the plane’s cockpit, was loaded onto a transport trailer early ...

Since then, the luxury aircraft has been used by Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani. The report noted Al Thanis’ initials, HBJ, are featured in the 747’s registration number “P4-HBJ.” ...