Boeing VP Pat Shanahan speaks during an unveiling ceremony of the 747-8 Intercontinental. Getty Images EVERETT, Wash.--Sporting an all-new corporate color scheme--red and orange and white instead ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Air China became the second airline Monday to take delivery of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental passenger jet, ... the 747-400 that preceded the "dash-8." ...

Lufthansa is celebrating the arrival of its latest Boeing 747, the 1,500th 747 ever built by U.S. jetmaker Boeing. ... The German airline expects to take 19 "Dash-8s" in total, ...

Boeing pushed the 747-8 beyond the initial scope of expected changes from the 747-400, most notably by adding new wings. That was necessary to get the performance the aircraft needed, Zarfos said.

Dash eight in action . The Boeing 747-8I is a large, efficient jet that can fly up to 8,000 nautical miles without refueling, enabling non-stop flights between major city pairs.

Boeing's 747-8 Freighter, which made its first flight a year ago. Boeing said that the 747-8 Intercontinental should make its first flight sometime in early spring this year.

The first 747-100 from Boeing was put into service in 1970, and those first planes sold at a list price of $24 million. Adjusting for inflation, that same 747 would sell today for $146.6 million.

EVERETT, Washington — Boeing spent more than five years and billions of dollars developing its new 747-8, but in the end the decision on whether to send the company’s biggest aircraft ever ...

As the hangar of Boeing’s Everett assembly plant opens its massive gates, she comes into view: the last 747-8 freighter plane. On a frosty Tuesday, thousands of former and current Boeing ...

A Boeing 747-8 cargo plane operated by Atlas Air made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport late Thursday after the plane suffered an engine malfunction minutes after taking off.

The final 747 jumbo jet rolled out of Boeing’s Everett plant late Tuesday, marking a milestone for both the iconic airplane and the giant assembly plant that was built for the jet in the late 1960s.