Key facts
- Type
- Wide-body jet airliner
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Status
- In service
- Primary users
- UPS Airlines Lufthansa , Korean Air , Cathay Pacific Cargo
- Manufactured
- 2008–2023
- Introduction date
- 747-8F: October 12, 2011, with Cargolux , 747-8I: June 1, 2012, with Lufthansa
- First flight
- 747-8F: February 8, 2010 , 747-8I: March 20, 2011
- Developed from
- Boeing 747-400
- Variants
- Boeing VC-25B , Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Boeing 747-8 is the last member of the Boeing 747 family, a series of large, long-range wide-body airliners built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the largest model of the 747 and Boeing's largest aircraft overall.
Following the introduction of the 747-400, Boeing explored larger 747 versions as potential competitors to the proposed double-deck Airbus A3XX, later developed as the Airbus A380. The stretched aircraft, initially called the 747 Advanced, was officially launched as the 747-8 on November 14, 2005, with the designation reflecting its technological ties to the 787 Dreamliner. At the time, Boeing forecast a market of 300 aircraft.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boeing 747-8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.