BOEING COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES

'Boeing Commercial Airplanes' is a unit of The Boeing Company, based in Renton, Washington consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In 2006, Boeing was the world’s largest civil aircraft company in terms of orders, overtaking Airbus for the first time since 2000. President and CEO Alan Mulally led Boeing's civil aircraft arm, until he was nominated as CEO of Ford Motor Company on 5 September 2006. He was succeeded by Scott Carson.

Contents

Airplane numbering system

Current production

Deliveries

Discontinued aircraft

Boeing

McDonnell Douglas and Douglas Aircraft Company

Specially built models

Concept designs

Facilities

References

See also

Airplane numbering system

The Boeing numbering system for commercial airliners starts with the airplane's model number, e.g. 377) followed by a dash and three digits (two numbers) following the pattern Boeing xxx-scc. In general, since the Boeing 707, the model number takes the form of a 7 followed by a digit and then by another 7, e.g. 737.
The series number is a single digit (s), e.g. -200. The following two digits number (cc) is attributed according to the company the aircraft was first delivered to. These two digits are called Boeing customer codes. For instance, a Boeing 767-300 delivered to Air Canada would take the designation "767-3'33'" while a 777-200 delivered to American Airlines would take the designation "777-2'23'". See List of Boeing customer codes for a more complete list.
Additional letters are sometimes used. These include, "ER" for an "extended range" version or "LR" for the "long range" version.

Current production

'Product list and details (date information from Boeing)'

Aircraft	Variants	Description	Capacity	1st flight	1st delivery
737	600, 700, 700C, 700ER, 800, 900, 900ER	Twin‑engined narrowbody	85‑215	Oct 1966	Apr 1967
747	400, 400F, 400ER, 400ERF, 400BCF	Four‑engined large widebody	85‑660	Feb 1969	Jan 1970
767	200ER, 300ER, 300F, 400ER	Twin engined medium widebody	180‑375	Oct 1981	Apr 1982
777	200, 200ER, 200LR, 300, 300ER	Twin engined medium to large widebody	301‑550	Jun 1994	May 1995
BBJ	BBJ, BBJ2, BBJ3	Twin engined executive jet	20‑50	Oct 1998	Nov 1998
787	3, 8, 9	Twin engined short(3) & long(8,9) range widebody	226-266	Oct 2007?	May 2008?

Future products

Expected EIS	Type	Description	Notes
2008	787 Dreamliner	Twin-engined widebody	Launch Customers: All Nippon Airways and Air New Zealand
2008	777 Freighter	Twin-engined widebody freighter	Launch Customers: Air Canada and Air France-KLM
2008	Sukhoi Superjet 100	Twin-engined narrowbody	risk sharing partner with Sukhoi
2009	747-8 Freighter	Four-engined widebody freighter	Launch Customers: Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines
2010	747-8 Intercontinental	Four-engined widebody	Launch Customer: Lufthansa
2010	747 BBJ	Four-engined widebody executive jet	based on 747-8
	787 BBJ	Twin-engined widebody executive jet	based on 787-8 & 787-9
	Y1/737RS	code name for the 737 and 757-200 replacement project.
	Y3	code name for the 747 and 777-300 replacement project.

Deliveries

'Aircraft production rates'

Month	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003
January	29	22	17	20	30
February	36	35	32	25	33
March	41	41	32	32	31
April	35	28	33	22	32
May	40	34	24	27	23
June	39	35	28	26	32
July	33	30	23	20	32
August		33	32	25	17
September		37	6	22	26
October		35	23	20	20
November		34	28	23	28
December		34	22	24	23
'Year Total'	253	398	300	285	310
'Monthly Average'	36.14	33.16	25	23.75	25.83

Discontinued aircraft

Boeing

Aircraft	Number Built	Notes
247	75
314 Clipper	12
377 Stratocruiser	56	(civil development of the military B-29)
707/720	1,010
717	156	(formerly the MD-95, evolved from the DC-9 family)
727	1,832
757	1,050

McDonnell Douglas and Douglas Aircraft Company

Aircraft	Number Built	Notes
DC-1	1
DC-2	156
DC-3	13,000+	Licensed models were built in Russia and Japan
DC-4	79
DC-5	16
DC-6	704
DC-7	338
DC-8	556
DC-9	976
DC-10	446	also available as the MD-10 upgrade
MD-11	200	stretched and modernized version of the DC-10
MD-80 Series	1,191	stretched and modernized version of the DC-9
MD-90	117	stretched and modernized version of the MD-80

Specially built models

Although aircraft are commonly ordered with features or options at the request of the ordering airline, there are certain models which have been built specifically for the customer.
The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened fuselage, long range model only sold to Qantas.
The Boeing 757-200 Combi was a single example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (later renamed Nepal Airlines), though the engineering design of the freight door was subsequently used when UPS was the launch customer for the 757-200PF several years later.
The 747SP production line was re-opened nearly four years after the supposedly final 747SP was built. One aircraft was built for the United Arab Emirates. The cockpit, unlike that of other 747SP, had a crew of two instead of three.
Douglas, prior to its merger with McDonnell, built the DC-9-20 for Scandinavian Airlines. This model combined the fuselage of the DC-9-10 with the wings of a DC-9-30. No other airline ordered the aircraft.

Concept designs

★ Boeing 2707 - supersonic airliner, canceled

★ Boeing 7J7 - high-efficiency propfan airliner, canceled

★ 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

★ McDonnell Douglas MD-12 - double deck jumbo airliner, canceled

★ McDonnell Douglas MD-94X - high-efficiency propfan airliner, canceled


Image:Pan Am Boeing 2707 at Cruise.jpg |Boeing 2707 supersonic transport
Image:Boeing sonic.jpg |Boeing Sonic Cruiser
Image:MD12-poster.jpg |MD-12 double-decker airliner
BCA is currently organized as:

★ Boeing Commercial Airplanes

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★ Airplane Programs

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★ 787 Program

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★ Commercial Aviation Services
BCA subsidiaries:

★ Aeroinfo Systems

★ Alteon Training, formerly FlightSafetyBoeing

★ Aviall, Inc.

★ Aviation Partners Boeing, a 50/50 joint venture with Aviation Partners Inc.

★ Continental Datagraphics

★ Jeppesen, formerly Jeppesen Sanderson.

★ Preston Aviation Solutions

Facilities

★ Long Beach, California (McDonnell Douglas aircraft assembly and testing)

★ 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)

References

★ Boeing Commercial Airplanes page

★ BCA Orders and Deliveries report page

★ Facts & Facilities

★ newairplane.com

★ aircraft-deliveries.com

See also

★ Airbus

★ Bombardier

★ Competition between Airbus and Boeing

★ Embraer

★ List of civil aircraft