I toured the Boeing 747 Experience at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. The jet was the first Boeing 747-400 produced and served as a prototype.

Delta Ship 6301 when it was a Boeing 747-400 prototype. Boeing Pratt & Whitney then used the aircraft as a test bed for its PW4000 series engines, which would power all of Delta's 747-400s.

Delta is sending one of its last 747s on an employee farewell tour. It's last regularly scheduled flight on the jet is scheduled for Dec. 20, 2017.

Seattle’s Museum of Flight has the first Boeing 747 ever built, serial number 001. But if you want to get the view from standing atop a 747’s wing, you may need to go to Atlanta. The Atlanta ...

The iconic Boeing 747 jumbo jet is the focus of a new exhibit opening later this month at the Delta Flight Museum. When the $5 million “747 Experience” exhibit opens March 28 at the museum ...

With Northwest, Delta acquired 16 passenger 747-400s, two passenger 747-200s (used for charter), and 12 747-200 freighters. MORE : Midair vows: Pilot marries flight attendant on last Delta 747 flight ...

A Boeing Co. 747-400 airplane operated by Delta Airlines Inc. lands at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images By Julie Johnsson ...

A Delta Air Lines 747 that will retire by year end, one of the last of these jumbo jets to fly for a U.S. carrier, visited its birthplace, Everett, on a farewell tour of the country.

Delta employees, customers and aviation enthusiasts have been eagerly flying the airline’s remaining Boeing 747-400s since Delta said in 2014 that it would retire the “Queen of the Skies” at ...