Boeing will debut a 747-8 Freighter and Intercontinental model at the Paris Air Show 2011 0606117

 

Paris Air Show le Bourget 2011
International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition
Paris - France

20 - 26 June 2011
 
Boeing at Paris Air Show / Le Bourget 2011
 

Monday, June 6, 2011, 08:18 PM

 
Boeing will debut a 747-8 Freighter and Intercontinental model at the Paris Air Show 2011.
 
 
The first 747-8 Intercontinental — the passenger version of Boeing’s largest airliner — is scheduled to arrive on June 19 and be on static display until the evening of June 21. The third flight-test 747-8 Freighter, RC522, is set to arrive June 20 and be on display for the following two days.
     

The first 747-8 Intercontinental — the passenger version of Boeing’s largest airliner — is scheduled to arrive on June 19 and be on static display until the evening of June 21. The third flight-test 747-8 Freighter, RC522, is set to arrive June 20 and be on display for the following two days.
Boeing 747-8

     

Boeing has previously said it plans to deliver the first 747-8 Freighter to launch customer Cargolux in the middle of this year. In Monday’s announcement, the company said the first delivery would be ‘later this summer.’

The first Intercontinental is scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter to a private customer, reportedly the government of Kuwait. Lufthansa is set to get the first airline Intercontinental early next year.

Boeing sent a 787 Dreamliner last year to the Farnborough (U.K.) International Airshow, which alternates years with Paris. In addition to the 747s, Boeing plans to show off its first 787, an Air Berlin 737-700 with the new Boeing Sky Interior, a Qatar Airways Boeing 777-200LR, a C-17 Globemaster III military airlifter an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet and a CH-47F Chinook heavy-lift helicopter to the show, which starts June 20. The military aircraft will be part of the U.S. Department of Defense display throughout the show.

‘We are excited to bring to the Paris Air Show the world’s newest and most innovative family of commercial airplanes,’ Tom Downey, senior vice president, Boeing Communications, said in the announcement.