Boeing 747
Triumph Aerostructures Responsibility
Triumph Aerostructures-Produced Integrated Aerostructures
The 747 represents Triumph Aerostructures' oldest and largest commercial aircraft program. When the program began in 1966, Triumph Aerostructures' predecessor company won what was then the largest-ever commercial air frame assembly contract for the empennage and fuselage panels.
Today, Triumph Aerostructures delivers more than 60,000 pounds of structue for every 747 that is built. The majority of Triumph Aerostructures facilities have a role on the 747: center fuselage panels (Hawthorne, Calif.); aft body section, floor beams and the empennage (Grand Prairie, Texas); lower rudders and passenger, cargo service doors (Stuart, Fla.) and transcowl components and lower rudder composites (Milledgeville, Ga.).
About the Boeing 747
From its first flight in 1969, the Boeing 747 was bigger, flew farther and carried more people than any other commercial airplane.
The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and 747-8 Freighter are the new high-capacity 747s that offer airlines the lowest operating costs and best economics of any large passenger or freighter airplane.
This latest family of the 747 jetliners meets airline requirements for a passenger airplane that serves the 400- to 500-seat market between the 555-seat Airbus A380 and the 365-seat Boeing 777-300 Extended Range airplanes, and a freighter that continues the leadership of the 747 Freighter family in the world cargo market.
