--- title: "When was the last Boeing 747 delivered?" description: "A 747-8 freighter handed to Atlas Air, the 1,574th built, 31 January 2023. What happened, why it has not happened since, and whether it plausibly could again." url: https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/boeing-747/ site: "At One Place" --- # When was the last Boeing 747 delivered? **When was the last Boeing 747 delivered?: 31 January 2023** A 747-8 freighter handed to Atlas Air, the 1,574th built Production ran for fifty-four years. The 747 is the reason long-haul flying became affordable — its size cut the cost per seat far enough to open international travel to people who could not previously afford it. It was killed by efficient twin-engine aircraft: two modern engines now do what four used to, and airlines would rather fly a smaller aircraft more often. - **What:** A 747-8 freighter handed to Atlas Air, the 1,574th built - **When:** 31 January 2023 - **Category:** Technology that stopped - **Could this change?:** Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed. ## Technology that stopped | Question | When | | --- | --- | | When did Microsoft Office last change its default font? | 2023 | | When was the last VCR manufactured? | July 2016 | | When was the last telegram sent? | 15 July 2013 | | When did the last typewriter factory close? | 2011 | | When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed? | 30 December 2010 | | When did analogue television end in the United States? | 12 June 2009 | | When did Concorde last fly? | 24 October 2003, with the last flight of all on 26 November 2003 | > This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction. ## Common questions ### When was the last Boeing 747 delivered? 31 January 2023 — A 747-8 freighter handed to Atlas Air, the 1,574th built. ### What happened? Production ran for fifty-four years. The 747 is the reason long-haul flying became affordable — its size cut the cost per seat far enough to open international travel to people who could not previously afford it. It was killed by efficient twin-engine aircraft: two modern engines now do what four used to, and airlines would rather fly a smaller aircraft more often. ## Related pages - [When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/office-default-font/) - [When was the last VCR manufactured?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/vcr/) - [When was the last telegram sent?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/telegram/) - [When did the last typewriter factory close?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/typewriter-factory/) - [When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/kodachrome/) - [When did analogue television end in the United States?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/analogue-tv-us/) - [When did Microsoft Office last change its default font?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/office-default-font/) - [When did the London Underground last gain a line?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/london-underground-line/) - [When were the SI base units last redefined?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/si-base-units/) - [When was the last leap second added?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/leap-second/) - [When was an element last added to the periodic table?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/new-element/) - [When was the last VCR manufactured?](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/vcr/) - [Everything, most recent first](https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/) ## Sources - Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (https://www.wikidata.org/) [CC0 1.0]