More than 50 years after its maiden voyage, the very first Boeing 727 took its very last flight on Wednesday, March 2. The 727 flew from Paine Field to Boeing Field International, both in Washington ...

Built in the early 1960s, the Boeing 727 was designed to bridge the gap between short-haul and long-haul flights, operating between airports with shorter runways and lacking infrastructure. It had ...

When the Flyer of the Wright Brothers leapt off the ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903, they never imagined that in just a few (relatively) short decades, their one-person plane ...

Bob Bogash hopes that next week a dream he’s pursued for more than a quarter of a century will materialize: to see the first Boeing 727 — a model that became one of the airplane-maker’s top-selling ...

Brazilian investigators have cited poor communications and slipshod practices after a Boeing 727-200 narrowly missed a vehicle towing a lighting tower while rotating for take-off at Curitiba airport.