Nice to see they did it near the Moses Lake flight test airfield.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3a71ef99d4.png

And a 500' fly by at Paine Field after takeoff.

Seems like N863GT flew back to PAE today (5Y88), having sat at CVG for the whole two weeks since delivery.
Per FR24, it parked on the Boeing ramp apparently.

Anyone knows why it came back to PAE?
Picking up freight? Or somebody unhappy with the a/c…?

Post #469 here indicates that it is for a further ceremony, involving Apex / Kuehne + Nagel.

ah, ok - thanks! 👍

As we are at it. Is there any civil 4 holer left in production?

Il-76 and Il-96.

not very "civil"

In theory both are available as new built commercial freighters. The 76 even just got engine upgrades.

AFAIK, the Il-96-500T (the only proposed freighter variant) never got beyond the drawing board.

The first Il-96-400M is under construction. A reconfigured old fuselage. It took years but legally it is "in production". This is what was asked for above.
https://www.flugrevue.de/zivil/iljus...doch-in-serie/

I'm not sure I consider a single prototype - in final assembly for over 3 years - of a design that doesn't appear to have any prospect of actually being produced in numbers - as "in production".

They certainly take their time. In April 2021 they built another 96-300 for the Russian government's Rossiya airline. This one could considered to have been military, but -once in a while- they still build new quads.

Video-Blogger Sam Chui onboard a civil Il-76 with the new engines.
https://samchui.com/2022/06/12/trip-.../#.Y_EtYi9Xby8

Hmm. 2 pilots, 1 flight engineer 1 navigator all on their own stations. Hard to imagine that O'Leary will buy some of those.
Thanks for the link.

Four engines for mid haul.

Undermanned, what happened to the radio operator?

And the bomb aimer...