* Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F ( converted freighter ) from Bedek Aviation ( Israel Aerospace Industries ) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet.

It is wholly owned by Swiftair.

Swiftair S. A. is an airline headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Currently Swiftair is also a UN contractor with two MD-83 based in Khartoum ( Sudan ) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.

Fedex Express uses an arrangement of this type for its feeder operations, contracting to companies such as Empire Airlines, Mountain Air Cargo, Swiftair, and others to operate its single and twin-engined turbo-prop " feeder " aircraft.

* 7 Boeing 737-300F ( four aircraft are operated for European Air Transport and one aircraft is operated for TNT Airways )

* 4 Boeing 737-300F ( 1 in storage )

Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Sonair Boeing 737 at Lubango airport, 2009

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

The UK Utterly Butterly display team flying Boeing Boeing-Stearman Model 75 | Stearman PT-17 biplanes at an English air show

Avianca Boeing 767-200ER parked at the El Dorado Terminal

Boeing 737-800 at Cibao International Airport in Santiago de los Caballeros | Santiago, DR

* 1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.

The four ships of the were 53, 000 tons at full load, 796 feet overall length, and carried two Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters.

* 1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.

In the February 1964 issue of Popular Science, von Braun, then director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ( MSFC ), discussed the need for a lunar surface vehicle, and revealed that studies had been underway at MSFC in conjunction with Lockheed, Bendix, Boeing, General Motors, Brown Engineering, Grumman, and Bell Aerospace.

Lausanne Airport is located at Blécherette, and also houses a Boeing 737 Simulator.

* 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.

Turkish Airlines is an official sponsor of the club, as shown by a Boeing 737 Next Generation # 737-800 | Boeing 737 – 800 logojet seen here at Atatürk International Airport in April 2011.

* 1993 – A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.

* 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress | B-52D, AF Serial No. 56-0687 on display at B-52 Memorial Park, Orlando International Airport, Florida ( formerly McCoy Air Force Base, Florida ).

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20: 31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.

Estonian Air Boeing 737 | Boeing 737-500 at Tallinn Airport

As of August 2012, this flight has now been redesignated as Flight 1494 now departing at 8: 34 AM EDT, using a Boeing 737-800.

In 2012 Pullmantur Air started its charter operations from Madrid-Barajas Airport with three Airbus 321s and two to three Boeing 747s.

An AeroSur Boeing 747-400, nicknamed " Torisimo ", shortly before landing at Madrid-Barajas Airport.

* 1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

* 1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on board.

* 1999 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error.

GIA operated Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 aircraft under wet lease arrangements with other airlines, and connected Kotoka International Airport in Accra with London Gatwick and Düsseldorf.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.

* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

Detroit Metropolitan Airport is one of the nation's most recently expanded and modernized airports with six major runways, and large aircraft maintenance facilities capable of servicing and repairing a Boeing 747.

* 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao ' an International Airport, killing 35 people.

* 1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.

* 1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2. 5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people.