Pan Am was the launch customer and operator for the Boeing 747, operating over 65 examples of the aircraft. Several ex-Pan Am Boeing 747s have been preserved in museums and aviation sites ...

The original Boeing 747 transformed the world of commercial aviation and launched one of the most beloved aircraft ever built ...

The compromise solution was a shorter 747 with four conventional engines, the 747SP, with the suffix "Special Performance." ...

Designed in just 28 months, the 747 was the first ever twin-aisle jetliner and was first introduced by the now-defunct airline Pan Am in 1970. Traditionally one of Boeing's best selling products ...

The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size of the 707, the first jetliner. The Seattle manufacturer did ...

First impressions matter. When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum enter the great expanse of the America by Air ...

Led by veteran Boeing engineer Joe Sutter, who is known as the “father of the 747,” the iconic plane took its first flight in 1969 and was in commercial service with Pan Am in 1970.

The first 747, which was fit to carry 347 passengers, flew with Pan Am in 1970 from New York to London. "I can't emphasize how big of a sense of employee pride there is with this airplane," she said.

Flights keep getting more expensive, and the number of perks keeps dropping. Here are a few throwback fringe benefits we wish ...

This aircraft is a Boeing 747 carrying 234 passengers and ... the end of the landing runway (see number 2 on the diagram). Pan Am 1736 carries 378 passengers, 16 crew, and two Pan Am employees ...

The first Boeing 747 rolls off the production line with Pan Am markings and dwarves a Pan Am Boeing ... [+] 707-321B sitting in the foreground, Everett, Washington, March 5, 1969. Trippe's bet on ...