With the Boeing 747 Jumbo out of production, the United States Air Force has confirmed it will purchase two ex-Lufthansa ...

Boeing has handed over the first 747-8 Intercontinental VIP airplane to what it described as an undisclosed customer. However the airplane, which was delivered with a minimal interior carries the ...

Boeing Business Jets has unveiled a number of luxurious and contemporary design concepts for the 747-8 VIP. The interior concepts, which will be shown for the first time at EBACE, feature vaulted ...

Nearly 16 years after Boeing seriously revisited the idea of stretching the 747, the company is concluding final flight tests of the first airline derivative of the 747-8 in readiness for an expected ...

With "fully half" of its BBJ backlog attached to twin-aisle aircraft, Boeing Business Jet (stand A7,8) president Steve Taylor remains cautiously optimistic that delays to commercial deliveries of the ...

MUKILTEO — The Boeing Co. handed over the first 747-8 passenger plane to an undisclosed VIP customer on Tuesday. “It’s been a long journey. It has been a great journey,” Elizabeth Lund, general ...

The FINANCIAL — GENEVA, May 16, 2011 — Boeing today announced the first five customers for 747-8 Intercontinental VIP airplanes will have the option to use loaned GEnx-2B engines that will be replaced ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co handed over the first passenger version of its upgraded and extended 747 to a secret VIP customer, who sent the gleaming, all-white plane along to a modification center ...

A Boeing 747 configured as a private VIP jet is being scrapped after having spent just 30 hours in service over 16 flights. The aircraft, originally intended for a Saudi royal, sat on the ground for ...

AMAC Aerospace's Basel facility has been busy with projects involving VIP 747-8s and 737s, along with a Global 6000 AMAC recently began a refurbishment of this VIP 747-8 at its facility in Basel, ...

A Boeing 747-8 that spent just 42 hours in the air is being dismantled, a report says. The $280 million jet was ordered for a Saudi prince, who died before it was delivered. Boeing repurchased the ...