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  • A Delta Air Lines 747 that will retire by year end [2017], one of the last of these jumbo jets to fly for a U.S. carrier, visits its birthplace, Everett, on a farewell tour of the country. The jumbo jet lands at Paine Field on a wet and rainy morning. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times)
    Delta Boeing 747 farewell tour
  • A Delta Air Lines 747 that will retire by year end [2017], one of the last of these jumbo jets to fly for a U.S. carrier, visits its Everett birthplace on a farewell tour. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times)
    Delta Boeing 747 farewell tour
  • Delta employees, SkyMiles customers and Boeing employees who worked on the 747-400 program, attend a ceremony at the Future of Flight Museum in Everett to honor the airplane that rolled out of the 747 factory in Everett on Sept. 13, 1999. This Delta Air Lines 747 will retire by year end [2017] and is on a farewell tour of the country. The 747 is seen through some giant windows in the background. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times)
    Delta Boeing 747 farewell tour
  • Boeing's number three 787 takes off from Boeing Field for a test flight. Mt Rainier looms in the distance as the 787 takes off. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times, 2010)
    787 test flight
  • Rookie driver Andrew Tate in the Les Schwab/Sound Propeller takes off and goes high in the air on the final lap, winning the race. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times, 2016)
    Rookie Andrew Tate's hydroplane victory
  • This year’s debut of the 737 MAX brought increased production at the Renton plant, but Boeing’s total workforce in the state has shrunk. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    Boeing jet count climbs
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its afterburner exhaust flame glowing, an EA-18G Growler is about to take off from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island during an exercise. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
    Jets, helicopters, rockets
  • 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
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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
  • 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’
  • 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 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Snakes of electrical wiring wind their way through the cargo hold of the final 747. (Jennifer Buchanan / The Seattle Times)
    Electrical wiring
  • The world has shrunk, and in no small measure because of Boeing. The company helped early Seattle by firing up its economic engine, shaping its politics and laying the foundation for a strong middle class. Now, having become a global player and facing competition more fierce than it has ever been, the aerospace titan is looking literally around the world for cheaper labor and willing partners.  And we are left to question both our relationship with the company and, to some degree, our very identity as a region. <br />
Marcus Yam / The Seattle Times
    Boeing Jet City
  • An All Nippon Airways 787 takes off from Paine Field in Everett. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
    787 take off
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