Aviation Memorabilia Newsletter

Name this propeller aircraft – 

Answer below in Terry's Trivia and Travel Tips.

OWG, standing for “Off We Go”, is a Canadian virtual airline and division of charter airline Nolinor Aviation.

Founded July 6, 2020, headquartered at Mirabel, Quebec, it commenced operations December 18, 2020.

Proud of not only being a Canadian, but a Quebec company, OWG is thrilled to be established in Quebec at the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL), located at the heart of our beautiful city – and at the Pearson Airport in Toronto (YYZ), home to the heaviest air traffic in Canada.

Source: owg.com

Final deliveries of the 'Queen of the Skies'

Boeing has delivered the second-to-last production B-747 to Atlas Air, leaving the US manufacturer one jumbo jet away from closing out a production programme that has spanned more than five decades. 

Atlas, on November 23, 2022, confirmed it has now received the third of four B-747-8 Freighters that it ordered from Boeing in January of last year.

“As we say goodbye to the 'Queen of the Skies', we’re proud of her legacy as an airplane that propelled aviation innovation and later laid the foundation of our family of freighters,” says Boeing 747 and 767 programme manager Kim Smith.

The single remaining in-production 747 – also a B-747-8F destined for Atlas Air – is now in the final assembly stage, Boeing says (see below).

Atlas parent Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings said earlier this month it expects to receive the aircraft in the first quarter of 2023. It intends to operate the last two production 747's for Swiss shipping and logistics company Kuehne+Nagel.

Source: www.FlightGlobal.com

Final Boeing 747 rollout for ‘Queen of the Skies’

The 1,574th and final 747 jumbo jet rolled out of Boeing’s Everett plant on December 8, 2022, marking a milestone for both the iconic airplane and the giant assembly plant that was built for the jet in the late 1960's.

The final 747-8 freighter model will fly to Portland for painting before Christmas and return to Everett early in the new year. It will undergo standard testing of fuel and other systems and then be inspected by its buyer, the cargo company Atlas Air that purchased Boeing’s last four 747's.

Atlas will take delivery some weeks after its return to Everett and at that point Boeing plans a farewell celebration of its “Queen of the Skies.”

The first 747 rolled out at the same airfield on September 30, 1968. With its distinctive humped upper deck, it’s the only airplane many flyers can recognize on first sight.

Source: www.SeattleTimes.com