Key facts
- Type
- Wide-body airliner
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Boeing
- Status
- In limited passenger service, in cargo service
- Primary users
- Atlas Air Lufthansa UPS Airlines British Airways (historical)
- Manufactured
- Passenger versions: 1988 – 2005 Freighter versions: 1993 – 2009 Combi versions: 1989 – 2002
- Introduction date
- February 9, 1989, with Northwest Airlines
- First flight
- April 29, 1988
- Developed from
- Boeing 747-300
- Variants
- Boeing YAL-1 747 Supertanker Spirit of Mojave
- Developed into
- Boeing Dreamlifter Boeing 747-8
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- airliner
- Operator
- Rossiya
- Country of origin
- United States
- Series
- Boeing 747
- Based on
- Boeing 747
- Material used
- composite material
- Developer
- Boeing
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Image
- Ba b747-400 g-bnle arp.jpg
- Height
- 19.40
- Length
- 70.66
- Has use
- airliner
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- first flight
- 1988-04-29
- Commons category
- Boeing 747-400
- service entry
- 1989-02-09
- wingspan
- 64.44
- total produced
- 694
- native label
- Boeing 747-400
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Encyclopedic overview
The Boeing 747-400 is a large, long-range wide-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, as an advanced version of the original Boeing 747.
The model was first introduced as the Advanced Series 300 was announced at the September 1984 Farnborough Airshow, targeting a 10% cost reduction with more efficient engines and 1,000 nautical miles [nmi] (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) range increase. Northwest Airlines became the launch customer with an order for ten aircraft on October 22, 1985. The first 747-400 was rolled out on January 26, 1988, made its maiden flight on April 29, 1988, received type certification on January 9, 1989, and entered service with Northwest a month later on February 9, 1989.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boeing 747-400” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.