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  • Pio Fitzgerald fell in love with the 747 as a little kid. He eventually earned his pilot’s license, an aeronautical engineering degree, a master’s and a Ph.D. In 2011, he was named Engineer of the Year at Boeing Commercial Airplanes. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)
    2011 Boeing Engineer of the Year
  • Senior cargo engineer Darrin Noe says the 747’s vast size and unique nose door mean it can carry everything from sturdy drilling rigs and military vehicles to high-value Maseratis and race horses. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Senior cargo engineer
  • Gary Bowers, who helps oversee functional tests of the 747 engine and landing gear, walks past engine No. 3 as he and other employees work to hang it on the wing on Nov. 8. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Walking past Engine No. 3
  • Jeff Miller, who helps oversee functional tests of the 747 engine and landing gear, lines up engine No. 3 with the mount on the final new 747 as he slowly drives it into place under the giant wing.  (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Lining up Engine No. 3
  • Jeff Miller readies the mount before engine No. 3 is moved into place on the final new 747. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Engine No. 3
  • Technical Fellow Darrell Marmion recently retired from Boeing after almost 36 years. He worked on about 800 747s. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    ‘I’m retiring with my airplane’
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  • Two employees on scissor lifts sandwich the newly lowered nose section of the final 747 before it is joined to the wing section during the final body join.  (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Sandwich the nose section
  • A Boeing employee claps after fuselage section 44 was slowly lowered into place by crane over the wing box assembly during the wing-body join, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, in Everett, Wash.
    Wing body join
  • Quality production manager Thuylinh Pham was a child when she immigrated to the United States on a 747 aircraft. Now several of her family members work at Boeing. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    It's a family affair
  • Sherri Mui was team lead on the completion of the 747 cargo and air conditioning bays, a job that is physically challenging. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Challenge accepted
  • A view from the tail looking forward through the lower cargo deck of the final 747. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Lower cargo deck
  • The very last new Boeing 747 taxis past a row of unfinished 777X aircraft Jan. 10 at Everett’s Paine Field as it gets ready for a test flight. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Last test flight
  • The nose section of the final 747 sails — with the help of two massive overhead cranes — above its wings and center fuselage during final body join. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Nose above the wings
  • In September, a worker in special orange gloves and hard hat signals adjustments to the overhead crane operator as the aft fuselage section slowly descends into place behind the wings during final body join in Everett of the last 747 ever built. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Overhead crane adjustment
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  • The giant nose section of the final 747 sticks up from beneath a deck before it is craned into position for during the final body join. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Giant nose section
  • Kelvin Anderson, left, and his son Vic take in the view from a deck overlooking the very last 747 (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Taking in the view
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  • The final 747 aircraft towers above the Boeing Freeway after it is rolled out of the assembly bay for the first time at Boeing’s Everett factory on Dec. 6. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Towering above the freeway
  • Vic Anderson, left, and his father, Kelvin, walk across the factory floor past the very last 747. Vic was the team lead on assembly of the 747 center fuselage and final body join, and his father is an “Incredible,” part of the crew that built the very first 747 in the late 1960s. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Like father like son
  • Johnny Patchamatla retired at the end of 2022 after 21 years at Boeing. His father, an immigrant from India, designed components of the original 747 flight deck. (Kevin Clark / The Seattle Times)
    It's a family affair
  • Signs at a passenger entry door alert employees to open floor boards during assembly. Within, stairs lead to the upper deck on the final 747. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Safety first
  • The sun sets on an era of aviation manufacturing as the very last Boeing 747 lands at Paine Field after a Jan. 10 test flight. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Sun sets on last test flight
  • Snakes of electrical wiring wind their way through the cargo hold of the final 747. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Electrical wiring
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