In 2016, Air France retired its last Boeing 747 Jumbo jets in a ceremony attended by the French Air Force aerobatic demonstration team, the Patrouille de France. For a short time after that, Air France continued to fly the largest passenger jet in existencethe Airbus A380 (but only for another four years, when the COVID-19 pandemic triggered their early retirement). Here is a throwback to when Air France retired its “Queen of the Skies.”
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