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This article is a list of Boeing 747 aircraft of the Boeing 747 family that were manufactured by Boeing and are in preservation.

Currently preserved[edit]

747-100[edit]

Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref.
N7470 747-121 September 30th, 1968 February 9th, 1969 1990 Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. On static display Nicknamed City of Everett [1]
N747GE /N744PA 747-121 1969 1970 January 25th, 2017 Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona. On static display [2]
N601US 747-151 November 7th, 1969 1970 1999 National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. On static display. Nose only [3]

747-200[edit]

Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref.
ZS-SAN 747-244B 1971 September 30th, 1971 January 24th, 2004 South African Airways South African Airways Museum Society, Gauteng, South Africa On static display nicknamed Lebombo [4]

747-300[edit]

Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref.
VH-EBU 747-338 1971 September 30th, 1971 January 24th, 2004 South African Airways Avalon Airport, Avalon, Victoria, Australia On static display [5][6]

747-400[edit]

Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref.
N661US 747-451 1988 April 29, 1988 September 2015 Delta Flight Museum, Georgia, United States On static display Northwest Airlines Flight 85 [7]
VH-OJA/N6046P February 1989 July 3rd, 1989 March 8th, 2015
  • Boeing (July 3rd, 1989 - September 6th, 1989)
  • Qantas (September 6th, 1989 - January 13th, 2015)
 Historical Aviation Restoration Society Museum at Shellharbour Airport south of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia On static display Named "City of Canberra" by Qantas [8]
On static display [9][10][11]
On static display [12][13]

747SP[edit]

Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Location Status Notes Ref.
N747NA 747SP-21 2007 April 26th, 2007 September 29th, 2022 Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona On static display Named Clipper Lindbergh [14][15]
ZS-SPC 747SP-44 1976 June 4th, 1976 October 2003 South African Airways Museum Society, Gauteng, South Africa On static display Named "Château Du Réduit" by Air Mauritius. Named "Gauteng" by Avia Airlines. Named "Maluti" by South African Airways in October 1999. [16]

Formerly preserved, scrapped during preservation[edit]

Aircraft Type Photograph Build date First flight Last flight Operator Last seen Scrap date Notes Ref.
G-BYGC 747-436 1999 January 11th, 1999 April 5th, - June 20th, 2020 British Airways Bro Tathan Airfield, St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom August 2023 [17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Aircraft and Space Craft, Boeing 747-121." Museum of Flight. Retrieved: July 15, 2011.
  2. ^ GE Aviation Donates 747-100 Testbed to Museum written by Australianaviation.Com.Au; November 19, 2018
  3. ^ "Historic Aircraft Lands at Air and Space Museum." Archived June 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine WTOP News, January 16, 2007.
  4. ^ ""Lebombo": Boeing 747-244B". SAA Museum Society. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  5. ^ "Location scouting Client Liaison's "A Foreign Affair"". Waking up in Geelong. April 1, 2019. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
  6. ^ "VH-EBU Boeing 747-338". www.aussieairliners.org. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
  7. ^ "N661US (Boeing 747-400)". www.deltamuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  8. ^ "Boeing 747-438 Longreach City of Canberra HARS". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
  9. ^ "Corendon | Boeing 747 van KLM naar Corendon Village hotel". Archived from the original on February 20, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  10. ^ Morris, Hugh (February 14, 2019). "Corendon Hotel with Boeing 747 jet: Jumbo jet hauled across field, roads to become new attraction". TravellerAU. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Boeing 747". Corendon Village Hotel Amsterdam. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  12. ^ Makki, Safir. "FOTO : Merangkai Pesawat Bekas Jadi Restoran Berkelas - Foto 2". gaya hidup (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  13. ^ "Lion Air PK-LHF (Boeing 747 - MSN 24063) (Ex 3B-SMC 9V-SMC B-LFA TF-AMA ) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  14. ^ Fisher, Alise (2022-12-08). "NASA's Retired SOFIA Aircraft Finds New Home at Arizona Museum". NASA. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  15. ^ "Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 18, 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  16. ^ ""Maluti": Boeing 747SP-44". SAA Museum Society. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  17. ^ McLanahan (2023-08-18). "British Airways BOAC-retro B747 scrapped". www.scramble.nl. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
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