Boeing's Last 747 Rolls Out of the Factory After More Than 50-Year Production Run

Boeing's final 747 rolled out of the company's cavernous factory north of Seattle Tuesday night as airlines' push for more fuel-efficient planes ends the more than half-century production run of the jumbo jet. From a report: The 1,574th -- and last -- 747 will later be flown by a Boeing test pilot, painted and handed over to cargo and charter carrier Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings early next year.

'It's a very surreal time, obviously,' said Kim Smith, vice president and general manager of Boeing's 747 and 767s programs out of the assembly plant here. 'For the first time in well over 50 years we will not have a 747 in this facility.'

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