- Collectible snap-together model.
- Highly detailed for collectors.
- Solid injection molded plastic construction.
- SkyMarks 1/200 scale.
- Assembles in minutes and includes display stand.
- Licensed by Boeing; Licensed by Qantas.
- Measures approximately 13-7/8-inches long with a 12-7/8-inch wingspan.
Comprising superior quality, solid, substantial injection molded
plastic components with a simple snap-fit design that allows for
easy assembly without the need for glue, this SkyMarks 1/200
scale Qantas Boeing 747-400 - Registration VH-OEJ - named Wunala
- was the airline's last remaining Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet in its
fleet, having departed Sydney, Australia for the final time on
July 22, 2020 - Flight 7474 - marking the end of an era. After
nearly five decades of 747 service, Qantas' fleet of Boeing 747
aircraft has flown over 3.6 billion kilometers / 2.2 billion
miles, the equivalent of 4,700 return trips to the moon or 90,000
times around the world! The model measures approximately
13-7/8-inches long with a 12-7/8-inch wingspan and comes complete
with Landing Gear and a Display Stand. An accurate, true-to-scale
reproduction of the actual aircraft, the model is great for
collectors and features authentic, highly detailed graphics and
markings. Easily discernible from earlier 747 models by its
prominent wingtip extensions and winglets, the Boeing 747-400 was
initially introduced in 1984 as an advanced variant of its
predecessor, the Boeing 747-300 - known as the Advanced 300
Series - as it was intended to be more cost-effective than the
-300, with more efficient engines, a greater range, at nearly
7,300 nautical miles, and due to the development and
implementation of a "glass cockpit," it did away with the need
for a flight engineer, consequently enabling the aircraft to be
flown by a two person crew. Northwest Airlines was the launch
customer for the Boeing 747-400, which entered service in
February 1989. With 694 Boeing 747-400 aircraft having been
produced over the course of its 20-year run from 1989 until 2009,
replaced by newer, more efficient twin-engine aircraft - the
Boeing 777, Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 - the Boeing 747-400,
which was offered in passenger, freighter, combi, domestic,
extended range passenger and extended range freighter versions,
was the bestselling version of the Boeing 747. Readily recognized
around the world by its iconic large hump atop the front of its
fuselage, the Boeing 747, nicknamed - Jumbo Jet - entered service
in 1970 with Pan Am as the first wide-body airliner, and has
primarily been used for long range passenger travel. Although
capable of accommodating from 416 passengers up to 624
passengers, depending on its seating configuration, because this
large, quad-engine jet was conceived in the mid-1960s, when
supersonic transports were also concurrently on the drawing
board, and viewed more favorably at the time as the likely
successor for the future travel, Boeing engineers and Pan Am CEO,
Juan Trippe opted for the Boeing 747 to be designed so that it
could be readily converted into a freighter if required by merely
retrofitting the fixed nose of the existing passenger aircraft
with a large hinged cargo door. Consequently, if a passenger 747
aircraft were ever to be adapted as a cargo plane with a hinged
cargo door, it would be much more cost effective and considerably
easier to convert existing passenger aircraft into cargo aircraft
if the cockpit were located above the nose, thus enabling the
existing passenger 747s to continue flying as transformed cargo
planes. Even though supersonic transports did not readily
materialize for the most part, and did not supersede the Boeing
747 as initially envisioned, over the course of time, the Boeing
747 was not only embraced as a successful passenger and cargo
aircraft, many passenger Boeing 747 aircraft were ultimately
converted into cargo 747 aircraft, known as BCF - Boeing
Converted Freighter(s) when it was no longer viable that they
continue to be used as passenger aircraft.