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747-LCF Dreamlifter

Role Outsize cargo freight aircraft
Manufacturer Boeing Commercial Airplanes Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corporation
First flight September 9, 2006
Introduction 2007
Status In service
Primary user Atlas Air under contract with Boeing
Number built 4 (all converted aircraft)
Developed from Boeing 747-400

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Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter

The Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner. With a volume of 65,000 cubic feet (1,840 m3)it can hold three times that of a 747-400F freighter. The outsized aircraft, known as the Dreamlifter, was designed to transport Boeing 787 Dreamliner parts between Italy, Japan, and the U.S., but has also flown medical supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic

The LCF conversion was partially designed by Boeing's Moscow bureau and Boeing Rocketdyne with the swing tail designed in partnership with Gamesa Aeronáutica of Spain. The cargo portion of the aircraft is unpressurized. Unlike the hydraulically supported nose section on a 747 Freighter, the tail is opened and closed by a modified shipping container handling truck, and locked to the rear fuselage with 21 electronic actuators

On September 16, 2006, N747BC arrived at Boeing Field, Seattle to complete the flight test program. Swing-tail testing was done at the Boeing factory in Everett.[20] The second airplane, N780BA, made its inaugural test flight on February 16, 2007. The third began modification in 2007. The first two LCFs entered service in 2007 to support the final assembly of the first 787s. Another 747-400 came from Malaysia Airlines, originally registered as 9M-MPA, before becoming N718BA. Delivery times for the 787's wings, built in Japan, was reduced from around 30 days to just over eight hours with the Dreamlifter. Evergreen International Airlines (unrelated to EVA Air or EGAT), a U.S. air freight operator based in McMinnville, Oregon, operated the LCF fleet[6 until August 2010. Then Atlas Air, which was awarded a nine-year contract for the operation of the aircraft in March 2010, took over LCF operation. Evergreen had achieved a 93% on flight schedule performance with the LCF, and sued Boeing for $175 million, which the court mostly dismissed. Wiki Link

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General characteristics

• Cockpit crew	Two
  Length	235 ft 2 in (71.68 m)	231 ft 10 in (70.7 m)
  Wingspan	211 ft 5 in (64.44 m)
  Height	70 ft 8 in (21.54 m)	63 ft 8 in (19.4 m)
  Fuselage width	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)	21 ft 4 in (6.50 m)

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• Engine models (×4)	PW 4062	PW 4062 GE CF6-80C2B5F RR RB211-524G/H

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• Cruising speed	Mach 0.82 (470 kn; 871 km/h; 541 mph)	Mach 0.855 (490 kn; 908 km/h; 564 mph)
  Takeoff run at MTOW	9,199 ft (2,804 m)	9,902 ft (3,018 m)

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Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter

The Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner.

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On September 16, 2006, N747BC arrived at Boeing Field, Seattle to complete the flight test program. Swing-tail testing was done at the Boeing factory in Everett.

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