List of Boeing 747 operators

The following is a list of current commercial operators of the Boeing 747, and any of its variants.

Lufthansa is the world's largest Boeing 747-8i operator.

Airline operators at July 2018

There were 543 Boeing 747 aircraft in airline service as of 12 September 2018, comprising 12 747-100s, 18 747-200s, 3 747-300s, 382 747-400s and 128 747-8s.[1] These aircraft are listed by airline operator and variant in the following table.

Airline 747-100[lower-alpha 1] 747-200 747-300[lower-alpha 2] 747-400[lower-alpha 3] 747-400F 747-8I 747-8F Total
ACG Air Cargo Global 2 2
ACT Airlines 5 5
Aerotranscargo 4 4
Air Atlanta Icelandic 7 5 12
Air China 3 7 10
Air China Cargo 3 3
Air Georgia 1 1
Air Hong Kong 1 1
Air India 4 4
AirBridgeCargo 7 11 18
Asiana Airlines 2 11 13
ASL Airlines Belgium 5 5
Astral Aviation 2 2
Atlas Air 4 23 10 37
Bahrain Royal Flight 2 2
Boeing 4[lower-alpha 4] 4
British Airways 36 36
Brunei Government 1 1
Cargo Air Lines 3 3
CargoLogicAir 2 1 3
Cargolux 12 14 26
Cargolux Italia 4 4
Caspian Airlines 1 1
Cathay Pacific 6 14 20
Centurion Air Cargo 1 1
China Airlines 4 18 22
China Cargo Airlines 3 3
China Southern Airlines 2 2
Corsair International 3 3
Dubai Royal Air Wing 3 1 4
El Al 4 1 5
Ernest Angley Ministries 1 1
EVA Air 3 3
Fars Air Qeshm 2 2
Fly Pro 1 1
General Electric 1 1
Geo-Sky 2 2
Global SuperTanker Services 1 1
Iran Air 1 1
Iran Air Force 4 2 6
Iraqi Airways 2 2
Japan Air Self-Defense Force 2 2
Kabo Air 1 1
Kalitta Air 22 22
Kingdom Aircraft II 1 1
KLM 12 3 15
Korean Air 3 4 10 7 24
Korean Government 1 1
Kuwait Airways 1 1
Las Vegas Sands Corporation 2 2
Lion Air 1 1
Lufthansa 13 19 32
Magma Aviation 2 2
Mahan Air 1 1
Martinair 1 1
Max Air 4 4
Morocco Government 1 1
NASA 1 1
National Airlines 2 2
Nippon Cargo Airlines 3 8 11
Polar Air Cargo 8 5 13
Pratt & Whitney Engine Services 2 2
Qantas 10 10
Qatar Airways Cargo 1 1 2
Qatar Amiri Flight 2 2
Rolls-Royce North America 1 1
Rossiya Airlines 9 9
Royal Air Maroc 1 1
Royal Flight of Oman 1 1 2
Rubystar 1 1
Saudi Arabian Airlines 7 5 2 14
Saudi Arabian Government 1 1 1 3
Silk Way West Airlines 2 5 7
Singapore Airlines Cargo 7 7
Sky Gates Airlines 2 2
Sky Lease Cargo 2 2
State of Kuwait 1 1
Suparna Airlines 4 4
SW Italia 2 2
Terra Avia 2 2
Thai Airways International 8 8
The Cargo Airlines 1 1
Transaviaexport Cargo Airline 1 1
UPS Airlines 13 8 21
US Air Force 6 6
Virgin Atlantic 8 8
Virgin Galactic 1 1
Wamos Air 6 6
Western Global Airlines 2 2
Total 12 18 3 164 222 42 86 547

Data at 12 September 2018

  1. Includes 747SP
  2. Includes 747-300F and 747-300 Combi
  3. Includes 747-400 Combi
  4. 747-400LCF

Civil operators

♠ = Original operator

Boeing 747-100

Iran Air Boeing 747-100B

Boeing 747SP

Pan Am Boeing 747SP

Boeing 747-200

Boeing 747-300

Air France Boeing 747-300

Boeing 747-400

Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400

Boeing 747-8

Cargolux Boeing 747-8F

Military and government operators

Summary of deliveries

Model First Delivery Last Delivery Total Delivered
Date Customer Date Customer
747-100 December 13, 1969 Pan American World Airways July 2, 1976 Pan American World Airways 167
747-100SR September 26, 1973 Japan Airlines April 2, 1975 Japan Airlines 7
747-100BSR December 21, 1978 All Nippon Airways November 12, 1982 All Nippon Airways 20
747-100B August 2, 1979 Iran Air April 2, 1982 Saudi Arabian Airlines 9
747-100B SUD March 24, 1986 Japan Airlines September 9, 1986 Japan Airlines 2
Total 747-100 Series: 205
747-200B January 16, 1971 KLM December 20, 1990 United States Air Force 229
747-200F (Freighter) March 10, 1972 Lufthansa November 19, 1991 Nippon Cargo Airlines 73
747-200C (Convertble) April 30, 1973 World Airways September 26, 1988 Martinair 13
747-200M (Combi) March 7, 1975 Air Canada April 5, 1988 Iberia Airlines 78
Total 747-200 Series: 393
747SP March 5, 1976 Pan American World Airways December 9, 1989 Abu Dhabi Govt. (UAE) 45
Total 747SP: 45
747-300 March 1, 1983 Union de Transports Aériens October 18, 1988 Japan Asia 56
747-300M (Combi) March 5, 1983 Swissair September 25, 1990 Sabena 21
747-300SR December 10, 1987 Japan Airlines February 19, 1988 Japan Airlines 4
Total 747-300 Series: 81
747-400 January 26, 1989 Northwest Airlines April 26, 2005 China Airlines 442
747-400M (Combi) September 1, 1989 KLM April 10, 2002 KLM 61
747-400D October 10, 1991 Japan Airlines December 11, 1995 All Nippon Airways 19
747-400F November 17, 1993 Cargolux May 7, 2009 Nippon Cargo Airlines 126
747-400ERF October 17, 2002 Air France November 10, 2009 LoadAir Cargo 40
747-400ER October 31, 2002 Qantas July 30, 2003 Qantas 6
Total 747-400 Series: 694
747-8F October 12, 2011 Cargolux     71
747-8BBJ February 28, 2012 Govt. of Qatar     8
747-8I April 26, 2012 Lufthansa July 7, 2017 Korean Air 36
Total 747-8 Series: 115
Total Delivered (All series): 1,533
  • Boeing data through end of July 2017.[3]

References

  1. https://www.planespotters.net/operators/Boeing/747
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Bowman 2014, pp.241-242
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 "Orders and Deliveries: Boeing 747." The Boeing Company. Retrieved: August 11, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 "World Airliner Census", Flight International, 30 August-5 September 1995, p.42
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Roach/Eastwood 1992, pp. 227-251
  6. "World Airline Directory", Flight International, 25-31 March 1992, p.46
  7. "World Airline Directory", Flight International, 25-31 March 1992, p.55
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Bowman 2014, p.244
  9. Russell, Edward (7 November 2017). "United bids 747 an aloha goodbye". FlightGlobal. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  10. "World Airline Directory", Flight International, 30 March 1985, p.128
  11. "World Airline Directory", Flight International, 30 March 1985, p.130
  12. Mushtaq, Tariq (1 February 2017). "PIA - THE UNFORTUNATE". Daily Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  13. "Boeing 747-400". Retrieved 2017-12-29.

Further reading

  • Bowman, Martin J. (2014). Boeing 747 A History - Delivering the Dream. Barnsley, Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Aviation. ISBN 9781783030392.
  • Eastwood, A.B.; Roach, John (1992). Jet Airliner Production List. West Drayton, England: The Aviation Hobby Shop. ISBN 0 907178 43 X.
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