The Boeing 747 is a large commercial wide body passenger and cargo transport aircraft launched by the U.S. Boeing Company in the late 1960s under the leadership of the U.S. Air Force. It is also the first wide body civil aircraft in the world. From 1970 when it was put into service to the Airbus A380 before it was put into service, the Boeing 747 maintained the record of the highest passenger capacity aircraft in the world for 37 years. [1]As of March 2013, Boeing 747 has produced a total of 1464 aircraft, with an additional 64 orders yet to be delivered; The latest model of Boeing 747 is the 747-8, which was officially put into service in 2011.At around 9:00 am on March 31, 2014, a 747 aircraft owned by All Nippon Airways, carrying 500 passengers, took off from Tokyo Haneda International Airport and headed to Okinawa. This was the last flight of a Boeing 747 in the Japanese aviation industry.