QuickCheck: Is one of Boeing's Dreamlifter freighters a converted Malaysia Airlines 747?


A Boeing Dreamlifter based on a B747-409LCF. - Photo courtesy of Eric Salard. - CC BY-SA 2.0

EVER since the first Boeing Dreamlifter took to the skies in the latter half of the 2000s to carry parts between manufacturing facilities in Italy, Japan and the United States, it has been said more than once online that one of the large cargo freighters is actually a converted Malaysia Airlines (MAS) 747-400.

Is this true?

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