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Following on from yesterdays story about QANTAS saying goodbye to its last Jumbo 747, there are rumours Boeing has announced it will stop making 747 Jumbo Jets for good after it completes the last of the 16 aircraft currently on order now. The final 747 is expected to roll off the line in the next two years or so, after which time the type will have been in production for more than five decades. The impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had across the air travel and aviation industries have only further depressed an already declining market for the iconic plane, which is lovingly nicknamed the "Queen of the Skies." Boeing has, so far, declined to confirm or deny that it has made any final decision about the future of the Jumbo Jet. The Chicago-headquartered plane-maker has reportedly not yet informed workers at its plant in Everett, Washington, near Seattle, where the latest version of these aircraft, the 747-8 variant, is assembled, about any upcoming changes. The facility in Everett, which has been responsible for pumping out finished 747s since the end of the 1960s, remains the largest building by volume in the world. "At a build rate of half an airplane per month, the 747-8 program has more than two years of production ahead of it in order to fulfill our current customer commitments. As it stands now, Boeing has orders for 16 747-8F freighters, including an order for 12 from global logistics firm UPS.
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