How much does the boeing 747 weigh?

For years Boeing published an official price list. In its last version, the 747-8 Intercontinental was listed at $418.4 million and the 747-8F freighter at $419.2 million (December 2019 figures). Those numbers were a negotiating starting point: large customers got discounts of 40 to 50%, so the real price of a 747-8 was closer to $200-250 million. Boeing stopped publishing the list in 2021, and the 747 left production shortly after.

Aircraft number 1,574, the last one built, a 747-8F for Atlas Air, was delivered on 31 January 2023, closing 54 years of manufacturing in Everett. Since then there are no new 747s, and the only ones changing hands are secondhand. A passenger 747-400 from the late nineties is worth just a few million dollars today, often less than its own engines, and many have been converted into freighters or scrapped for parts. The 747-8F, less than fifteen years old, retains much higher values because demand for the large-capacity freighter persists.

Buying it is only the start. A 747-400 burns around 10-11 tonnes of kerosene per hour, and a heavy maintenance check can cost tens of millions. The 747-8 improves that consumption by around 16% per seat, but it is still a four-engine aircraft. That is why most airlines retired it in favour of twinjets like the 777 or the A350, which carry nearly as much with two fewer engines. The most expensive examples in the model's history are the two 747-8s of the US presidential VC-25B programme, whose conversion contract exceeds $3.9 billion.