{"id":258874,"date":"2025-07-30T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/rolls-royce-retires-iconic-45-year-old-boeing-747-200\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:31:58","slug":"rolls-royce-retires-iconic-boeing-747-200-testbed-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=258874","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce Retires Iconic Boeing 747-200 Testbed Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span> aircraft are somewhat few and far between these days, and examples of the older 747-200 variant even more so, one particularly interesting example to have remained active in recent years has been a testbed plane belonging to Rolls-Royce. The British engine manufacturer had a 45-year-old 747-200B on its books that it used to test turbofans on flights out of Tucson in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft was used to test turbofans on flights out of Tucson in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,399,1015,4942,11334,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-boeing-747-200","category-rolls-royce","category-testbed","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258876,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258874\/revisions\/258876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}