Originally Posted by
tdracer
BTW Conso - not to be anal, but it's the 747-8, not the 747-800...
I can sort of see where Conso is coming from.
Although the 747 TC identifies the model/series as "747-8" and "747-8F", the TC also identifies most of the aircraft built to date (including all the passenger examples) as "747-8xx" or "747-8xxF", where "xx" is the traditional Boeing customer code that dates way back to the 707.
Only a dozen or so 747-8s have been built (all freighters) since Boeing discontinued those codes across all its products (the 787 and MAX have never used them).
So, for example, Lufthansa's B748s were built and registered as "747-830", Cathay's as "747-867F", etc, but UPS's are just "747-8F".
Even more confusing is what has happened to the designations for legacy Boeing types like the NG - for example Southwest's early B738s are "737-8H4", but its recent additions, though identical, are plain "737-800".