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 ...

The US Air Force confirmed to The War Zone that it plans to acquire two Boeing 747-8is from Lufthansa. Ann Stefanek, an Air Force spokesperson, told The War Zone, "As part of the presidential airlift ...

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 ...

The largest private jets, such as the Boeing 747-8 VIP and Airbus A340, offer luxurious interiors and long-range capabilities. High-profile owners like Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov and ...

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, ...