Photos:: The Boeing 747 | Queen of the skies

The first Boeing 747 jumbo jet, christened the City of Everett and largest transport plane in the world, departs on its first flight on Feb. 9, 1969, in Everett, Wash.

A Pan Am air hostess serves champagne in the first-class cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet in 1970.

The crew of the first commercial flight of the Boeing 747 from New York to London for Pan American poses for a photograph outside the aircraft before boarding, Jan. 21, 1970.

Pan American Airways pilots are seen in the cockpit of the Boeing 747 at London Heathrow airport, on Jan. 22, 1970, after its first commercial flight.

Two United Parcel Service Boeing 747 cargo aircraft on the tarmac of Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok airport in 2003.

A British Airways Boeing 747 taxis at sunrise in 2010 at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental after landing at Le Bourget airport near Paris in June 2011. Boeing’s new long version of its famed jumbo jet landed outside Paris a day ahead of its debut outside the U.S. at the Paris International Air Show.

A Boeing 747-8 at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in 2011.

Space shuttle Endeavour sits atop a Boeing 747 at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sept. 17, 2012.

Ellie Hong, 12, of Northridge, takes video for KidScoop Media as President Obama departs Los Angeles International Airport aboard Air Force One, a Boeing 747, on Oct. 25, 2016.

A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac at England’s Manchester Airport in 2012.

A Cargolux Boeing 747 cargo aircraft lands at Payerne airport in Switzerland in 2015.

A Qantas Boeing 747 flys over the Formula One Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in 2015.

An Atlas Air Boeing 747-47UF cargo airplane approaches Los Angeles International Airport after leaving Chicago on its way to Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 11, 2017.