Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

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Company type	Private (division of The Boeing Company)
Industry	Aviation
Founded	July 15, 1916 (1916-07-15)
Founder	William Boeing
Headquarters	Renton, Washington , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Raymond Conner, President and CEO
Products	737, 747, 767, 777, 787, Boeing Business Jet (BBJ)
Services	Maintenance, Training
Revenue	US$60 billion (FY 2014)
Number of employees	83,347
Parent	The Boeing Company
Website	boeing.com/commercial/
Footnotes / references

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) designs, assembles, markets and sells jet airliners and business jets (Boeing Business Jets); it also provides product-related maintenance and training to customers worldwide. A business division of parent Boeing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes operates from division headquarters in Renton, Washington, with more than one dozen engineering, manufacturing, and assembly facilities located throughout the U.S. 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 Raymond Conner, the former head of Sales, Marketing and Services.

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 from 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. This convention was followed in the development of the newest version of the 747, the 747-8. The 747 is the only model to use both the triple and single-digit designations (i.e., the 747-200, the 747-400, and the 747-8).

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, 747-400M). 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

Aircraft model	Number built	Description	Capacity	First flight	Variants in production	Out-of-production variants
737	8,880	Twin‑engine, single aisle, short- to medium-range narrow-body	85–215	April 9, 1967	700, 800, 900ER, BBJ, C-40, 737 AEW&C, P-8	100, 200, 200C, 200 Adv, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700ER, 900
747	1,520	Heavy, four‑engine, partial double deck, twin aisle main deck, single aisle upper deck, medium- to long-range widebody	467–605	February 9, 1969	8I, 8F, BBJ	100, 100SR, 100B, 200, 200F, 200C, SP, 200M, 300, 300M, 300SR, 400, 400M, 400D, 400F, 400ER, 400ERF, VC-25, E-4, YAL-1
767	1,083	Heavy, twin-engine, twin aisle, medium- to long-range widebody	180–375	September 26, 1981	300F, KC-767, KC-46	200, 200ER, 300, 300ER, 400ER, E-767
777	1,367	Heavy, twin-engine, twin aisle, medium- to long-range, ultra long-range (200LR), widebody	301–550	June 12, 1994	300ER, Freighter	200, 200ER, 200LR, 300
787	370	Heavy, twin-engine, twin aisle, long-range widebody	210–330	December 15, 2009	8, 9, 10, BBJ

Future airliner models

Expected EIS	Type	Description	Notes
2017	737 MAX	A new 737 series based on 737NG with new engines
2020	777X	New 777 series, with the lengthened 777-9X, and extra long range 777-8X. It has a new engine, and new composite wings with folding wingtip
	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

Orders and deliveries

The table below lists only airliners from the jet era.

Aircraft	Orders	Deliveries	Unfilled
707	1010	1010
717	155	155
720	154	154
727	1831	1831
737 Original	1144	1144
737 Classic	1988	1988
737 NG	7128	5961	1167
737 MAX	3218		3218
747	1418	1418
747-8	125	104	21
757	1049	1049
767	1170	1088	82
777	1587	1412	175
777X	306		306
787	1155	431	724
Totals	23,284	17,591	5,693

Data from Boeing through end of June 2016

Discontinued aircraft

Aircraft model	Number built	Notes
1	2
6	1
6D	2
7
8	1
40	84
64	1
80	16
81	2
95	25
200 Monomail	1	Converted into Model 221A as 8-passenger airliner
203	7
204	7
221 Monomail	1	Converted into Model 221A as 8-passenger airliner
247	75
307 Stratoliner	10
314 Clipper	12
367-80	1
377 Stratocruiser	56	Civil development of the military C-97
707	1,010
720	154	Modified variant of the 707
717	156	Twin-engine narrow body jet, originally named MD-95 that evolved from the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 family
727	1,832	Three-engine narrow body jet
757	1,050	Narrow body twin-engine jet

Gallery

• Boeing 7x7 series
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  Boeing 707
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  Boeing 717
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  Boeing 727
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  Boeing 737
• 
  Boeing 747
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  Boeing 757
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  Boeing 767
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  Boeing 777
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  Boeing 787

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.
• Boeing 747
  • The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
  • The Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter is a wide-body cargo aircraft.
  • The 747SP production resumed 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 was a consultant to Sukhoi on the Russian Regional Jet program that subsequently became 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 New Large Airplane – double-deck jumbo airliner, canceled.
• Boeing RC-1 - cargo aircraft, canceled.
• Boeing Sonic Cruiser – near-sonic airliner, canceled.
• Boeing Liquid Hydrogen (LH₂) Airplane

Airfoils

• Boeing 103 - used on Model 40 and F2B
• Boeing 103A - used on F2B and F3B
• Boeing 106 - used on Model 80, P-12, Monomail, Model 226
• Boeing 106B - used on Model 95, Model 247D, P-12
• Boeing 106R - used on various Beriev models
• Boeing 109 - used on Model 95 and P-26
• Boeing 117 - used on XPBB, B-29 and derivatives (307, 367, 377), all Aero Spacelines models, Tupolev Tu-4, Tu-70, Tu-75, Tu-80.

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 Canada
• 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. It currently supports Boeing Commercial Airplanes
• Seattle - Puget Sound region, Washington
  • Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington - Flight testing for Boeing aircraft, except McDonnell Douglas-designed aircraft
  • Boeing Everett Factory, Everett, Washington - 747, 767, 777, and 787 production and final assembly plant
  • Boeing Renton Factory, Renton, Washington - 737 and former 707, 727 and 757 production and final assembly plant
• Boeing Charleston Factory, North Charleston, South Carolina - 787 subassemblies and final assembly plant

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