The D-ABVT, a Boeing 747-400 from Lufthansa, started a one-way flight into the Mojave Desert. The 23-year-old jumbo jet was last in long-time storage, but is no longer to be reactivated and is now landing in the “aircraft graveyard”.

The four-jet engine was last parked in Tarbes, but was flown to its home base in Frankfurt am Main before what is probably the last transatlantic flight. The D-ABVT was last used on March 19, 2020 and was transferred to Long Time Storage in France on June 17, 2020.

Yesterday the Boeing 747-400 flew as the LH9923 ferry from Tarbes to Frankfurt. Today it goes to Los Angeles as LH9922 and tomorrow to the Mojave Desert. There the four-jet engine, which was delivered in 1997, will join numerous other aircraft. Lufthansa will no longer reactivate this jumbo jet. The future of the machine is uncertain, but it is likely that it will be dismantled in the foreseeable future.