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Boeing 747-400 (747-422)

B747-26878Scrapped

RegistrationFRF-HSEX

COOperatorCorsair

4operators

0incidents

0accidents

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Boeing 747-400 (747-422) built in 1993 in Everett. Operated for United Airlines, Corsair International, Corsair and Kabo Air. Scrapped.

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Mature · 20 years · ≈ 80,000 flight hours (approx.)

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Technical data

ManufacturerBoeing

First flight1993

Built inEverett, Washington (EE. UU.)

Country of registrationFrancia

MSN26878

VerificationPending check against the official civil register

The model · Boeing 747

Figures for the 747-400 variant, the most representative of the family · it is 67% the length of a football pitch

Length70.7 m232 ft

Wingspan64.4 m211 ft

Height19.4 m64 ft

Range13,446 km7,260 NMWith a typical passenger load

Cruise speed903 km/h488 ktMach 0.85

Service ceiling13,700 m44,948 ftIt flies above Everest (1.5 times its height)

Maximum take-off weight396,893 kg874,998 lb

Maximum payload217,879 kg480,340 lbIts 416 passengers with baggage would weigh about 41.6 t; the rest is fuel and cargo

Typical capacity416 passengersUp to 660 in a high-density layout

Endurance14 h 53 minAt cruise speed, non-stop

With its 13,446 km range, from Newark it could fly non-stop as far as:

HKGHong Kong12,960 km JNBJohannesburg12,865 km BOMMumbai12,546 km PVGShanghai (Pudong)11,860 kmDELNew Delhi11,765 km

Beyond its rangeBKKBangkok13,947 km

The type first flew in 1969 (57 years ago) · About 1,574 units built · Production ended in 2023

Figures for the type, not for this particular aircraft: each variant and each configuration changes something. They are shown in both systems used in aviation.

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Airports

Airports of the airlines that have operated it

1993–2005United Airlines network of its widebody aircraft

Base

EWRNewark IADDulles SFOSan Francisco IAHHouston

Main destinations

FRAFrankfurt am Main ORDChicago BRUZaventem NRTNarita JFKNew York LAXLos Angeles HNLHonolulu, Oahu ZRHZurich

since 2005Corsair International airline base

Base

ORYParis (Orly, Val-de-Marne)

2005–2013Corsair airline base

Base

ORYParis (Orly, Val-de-Marne)

since 2013Kabo Air airline base

Base

KANKano

Flight logbook

Under research

Aircraft chronology

1993

Built

Assembled by Boeing in Everett, Washington (USA).

Mar 23, 1993

Delivered to United Airlines

Delivered to United Airlines as N189UA.

Sep 11, 2001

Grounded after 9/11

On September 11, 2001, the 747-422 aircraft (registration N189UA), operated by United Airlines, was in the news. Source: the FAA (United States).

What happened

On 11 September 2001, after the attacks with hijacked aircraft on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon, the FAA ordered — for the first time in history — the complete closure of United States airspace (the SCATANA plan): all civil aviation was told to land immediately, and by midday the American sky was clear. Around 240 international flights bound for the United States were diverted to Canada — Operation Yellow Ribbon, with more than 30,000 passengers. Airspace reopened gradually from 13 September, by then under new security measures. Source: the FAA (United States).

Source: FAA

May 1, 2005

Transferred to Corsair International

Transferred to Corsair International.

Aug 1, 2005

Transferred to Corsair

Transferred to Corsair.

Jun 13, 2013

Transferred to Kabo Air

Transferred to Kabo Air.

Operators

1993-03-23

United Airlines

Registration N189UA

2005-05-01

Corsair International

Registration F-HSEX

2005-08-01

Corsair

Registration F-HSEX

2013-06-13

Kabo Air

Registration 5N-MDK

Memories coming soon

The register of memories is not open on this aircraft yet. We are enabling it gradually, record by record, as we consolidate each aircraft's information.

Before opening it we check the aircraft identity — its registration, its serial number and its model — against the civil register of the authority that registered it, so that every memory belongs to the exact aircraft that lived it. When that work reaches this record, the register will open here.

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BibTeX

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  title        = {{Boeing 747-400 (747-422) · F-HSEX · Corsair}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-10},
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  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/aircraft/B747-26878}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-18},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-18}
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Wikipedia

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