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First Lufthansa B-747/8 airplane arrived in Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany - First scheduled flight on 1 June from Frankfurt to Washington

Lufthansa became the first airline in the world to take delivery of a B-747/8 airplane. After the handover at Boeing’s manufacturing facility in Everett, Washington, the new “Jumbo” with the registration D-ABYA performed a touch and go at Hamburg Airport, where Lufthansa Technik is based, before flying on to its future home base in Frankfurt, where it landed safely. On 1 June, the world’s first p...

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Rome, Italy, 05/03/2012 17:48
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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