Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Type	Private (division of The Boeing Company)
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	1916 (1916)
Founder(s)	William Boeing
Headquarters	Renton, Washington, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Raymond L Conner, President and CEO
Products	737, 747, 767, 777, 787, Boeing Business Jet (BBJ)
Services	Maintenance, Training
Revenue	US$35.2 billion (FY 2011 )
Employees	60,000
Parent	The Boeing Company
Website	boeing.com/commercial/
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) designs, assembles, markets and sells large commercial jet aircraft and provides product-related maintenance and training to customers worldwide. A business division of parent The Boeing Company, Boeing Commercial Airplanes operates from a division headquarters in Renton, Washington and more than one dozen engineering, manufacturing and assembly facilities located throughout the United States and internationally. Boeing Commercial Airplanes includes the assets of the Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which merged with Boeing in 1997. The current President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes is James F. Albaugh, who is also an Executive Vice President of The Boeing Company. Albaugh is being replaced by Ray Conner, the Head of Sales.

Products

Model naming convention

See also: List of Boeing customer codes

For all models sold beginning with the Boeing 707 in 1957, Boeing's naming system for commercial airliners has taken the form of 7X7. All model designations, 707 through 787 have been assigned, leaving 797 as the only 7X7 model name not assigned to a product.

For model numbers in the 707 to 777 range, the model number consists of an airplane's model number, for example 707 or 747, followed by a dash and three digits that represent the series within the model, for example 707-320 or 747-400. In aviation circles, a more specific model designation is sometimes used where the last two digits of the series designator are replaced by the two digit, alpha-numeric Boeing customer code, for example 747-121, representing a 747-100 originally ordered by Pan American World Airways (Boeing customer code 21) or 737-7H4, representing a 737-700 originally ordered by Southwest Airlines (Boeing customer code H4). Unlike other models, the 787 uses a single digit to designate the series, for example 787-8.

Additional letters are sometimes appended to the model name as a suffix, including "ER" to designate an "extended range" version, such as the 777-300ER, or "LR" to designate a "long range" version, for example 777-200LR. Other suffix designators include "F" for "freighter", (747-400F) "C" for "convertible" aircraft that can be converted between a passenger and freighter configuration (727-100C) and "M" for "combi" aircraft that are configured to carry both passengers and freight at the same time (757-200M). Passenger aircraft that are originally manufactured as passenger aircraft and later converted to freighter configuration by Boeing carry the suffix "BCF" designating a Boeing converted freighter (747-400BCF).

Aircraft in production or development

Product list and details (date information from Boeing)

Aircraft model	Variants in production	Description	Capacity	First flight	Out-of-production variants
737	700, 700ER, 800, 900ER, BBJ, C-40, AEW&C, P-8	Twin‑engine, single aisle, short- to medium-range narrow-body	85‑215	Apr 9, 1967	100, 200, 200C, 200 Adv, 300, 400, 500, 600, 900
747	8I, 8F, BBJ	Four‑engine, partial double deck, twin aisle main deck, single aisle upper deck, medium- to long-range widebody	366‑580	Feb 9, 1969	100, 100SR, 100B, 200, 200F, 200C, SP, 200M, 300, 300M, 300SR, 400, 400M, 400D, 400F, 400ER, 400ERF, VC-25, E-4
767	200ER, 300ER, 300F, 400ER, KC-767, KC-46	Twin-engine, twin aisle, medium- to long-range widebody	180‑375	Sep 26, 1981	200, E-767
777	200, 200ER, 200LR, 300, 300ER, Freighter	Twin-engine, twin aisle, medium- to long-range, ultra long-range (200LR), large widebody	301‑550	Jun 12, 1994
787	8	Twin-engine, twin aisle, long-range widebody	210-330	Dec 15, 2009

Future airliner models

Expected EIS	Type	Description	Notes
2017	737 MAX	A new 737 series based on 737NG with new engines
	Y1/737RS	Code name for the Boeing 737 and 757-200 replacement project
	Y3	Code name for the Boeing 747 and 777-300 replacement project

Discontinued aircraft

Boeing 707

QantasLink Boeing 717-200 the final McDonnell Douglas designed aircraft, produced by Boeing. Now discontinued.

Aircraft model	Number built	Notes
40	84
247	75
307 Stratoliner	10
314 Clipper	12
377 Stratocruiser	56	Civil development of the military C-97
707/720	1,010
717	156	Formerly the MD-95, evolved from the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 family
727	1,832
757	1,050

Specialty and other aircraft

Airlines commonly order aircraft with special features or options, but Boeing builds certain models specifically for a particular customer.

• The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened-fuselage, long-range model only sold to Qantas.
• The Boeing 757-200M was a single-example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (now called Nepal Airlines). This plane could be converted between passenger and freighter configuration. It was launched by Royal Nepal Airlines in 1986 and delivered two years later.
• The 747SP production line was re-opened nearly four years after the supposedly final 747SP was built, to manufacture one aircraft for the United Arab Emirates. It had a cockpit crew of two instead of the three-crew layout of other 747SPs.
• Two Boeing VC-25s were built for the US Air Force as Presidential Air Force One transports. This model was a highly modified 747-200B.
• Boeing has been a risk sharing partner with Sukhoi on the Sukhoi Superjet 100 twin-engine narrowbody airliner.

Concepts

• Boeing 2707 – supersonic airliner, canceled.
• Boeing 7J7 – high-efficiency propfan airliner, canceled and may later resume for Y1.
• Boeing 747-300 Trijet - high-efficiency trijet version of the Boeing 747-200, canceled.
• Boeing NLA – double-deck jumbo airliner, canceled.
• Boeing Sonic Cruiser – near-sonic airliner, canceled.
• Boeing Liquid Hydrogen (LH₂) Airplane

Organization

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is organized as:

• Airplane Programs
  • Renton - 737, BBJ, P-8A Poseidon
  • Everett - 747, 767, 777, 787
  • Fabrication Division
  • Global Partners
  • Propulsion Systems
• 787 Program
• Commercial Aviation Services

BCA subsidiaries:

• Aeroinfo Systems
• Aviall
• Aviation Partners Boeing, a 50/50 joint venture with Aviation Partners Inc.
• Boeing Training & Flight Services (was Alteon Training)
• CDG
• Jeppesen, formerly Jeppesen Sanderson.
• Preston Aviation Solutions
• Global Aeronautica, formerly a 50/50 joint-venture with Alenia Aeronautica

Major facilities

• Long Beach, California (McDonnell Douglas aircraft assembly and testing, currently supports Boeing Commercial Airplanes)
• Seattle-Boeing Field, Washington (Flight testing for Boeing aircraft except McDonnell Douglas-designed aircraft)
• Seattle-Everett, Washington (747, 767, 777, and 787 Dreamliner)
• Seattle-Renton, Washington (737 and former 707, 727 and 757)
• North Charleston, South Carolina (787 Dreamliner subassemblies and final assembly plant)
• San Antonio, Texas

See also

• Airbus
• Bombardier Aerospace
• COMAC
• Competition between Airbus and Boeing
• Embraer
• List of civil aircraft
• United Aircraft Corporation

External links

• Boeing Commercial Airplanes page
• BCA Recent orders summary page and BCA Orders and Deliveries report page
• Official site for Boeing's new airplanes
• Complete production list starting with Model 1
• Boeing’s Triumph: The American Jetliner
• BBC Q&A: Boeing and Airbus