Boeing Commercial Airplanes

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), based in Renton, Washington, is a unit of The Boeing Company, 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. It is the largest manufacturer of civil aircraft as measured by total sales revenue (2005), but the second-largest civil aircraft manufacturer in total aircraft orders after Airbus. President and CEO Alan Mulally leads Boeing's civil aircraft arm.

Passenger capacity of existing and future Boeing civil aircraft. (Click to enlarge)

Products

Boeing 314

Discontinued Boeing aircraft

• 247
• 314 Clipper
• 377 Stratocruiser (civil version of the military B-29)
• 717 (formerly the MD-95, evolved from the DC-9 series)
• 707
• 720
• 727
• 757

McDonnell Douglas MD-88

Discontinued

• DC-2
• DC-3
• DC-4/DC-4E
• DC-5
• DC-6
• DC-7
• DC-8
• DC-9
• DC-10 (also available as the MD-10 upgrade)
• MD-11 (stretched and modernized version of the DC-10)
• MD-80 Series (stretched version and modernized of the DC-9)
• MD-90 (stretched and modernized version of the MD-80)

Concepts

Boeing Sonic Cruiser

• 2707, a cancelled supersonic transport
• 7J7
• Sonic Cruiser

Current aircraft

Boeing 747-400

Product list and details (date information from Boeing)

Aircraft	Legacy	Description	Seats	Launch date	1st flight	1st delivery
737	600, 700, 700C, 800, 900	Twin-engine narrowbody	85-215	May 1964	Oct 1966	April 1967
747	400, 400F, 400ER, 400ERF, 400BCF	Quad-engine large widebody	85-524	May 1966	Oct 1969	April 1970
767	200ER, 300ER, 300F, 400ER	Twin-engine small widebody	180-375	May 1978	Oct 1981	April 1982
777	200, 200ER, 200LR Worldliner, 300, 300ER	Twin-engine medium widebody	330-550	May 1992	Jun 1996	April 1997
Boeing Business Jet	BBJ, BBJ2	Twin-engine executive jet	20-50	Nov 1996	Nov 2005	Nov 2005

Future

• 787 Dreamliner, previously known as the 7E7 and Y2.
• 737-700ER, 737-900ER
• Russian Regional Jet, risk sharing partner with Sukhoi
• 777 Freighter
• 747-8I and 747-8F
• Y1/737RS, code name for the 737 and 757-200 replacement project.
• Y3, code name for the 747 and 777-300 replacement project.
• BBJ3

Airliner Deliveries

Boeing Deliveries

Month / Year	2006	2005	2004	2003
January	22	17	20	30
February	35	32	25	33
March	41	32	32	31
April	28	33	22	32
May	34	24	27	23
June		28	26	32
July		23	20	32
August		32	25	17
September		6	22	26
October		23	20	20
November		28	23	28
December		22	24	23
Year Total	126	300	285	310
Monthly Average	31.5	25	23.75	25.83

Boeing customer codes

Boeing customer codes are used to identify the operator for which an aircraft was first ordered by. To use a 747-400 as an example, the codes follow the format 747-4XX, i.e. 747-422 (United Airlines) or 747-436 (British Airways).

Airbus does not follow this practice, an A340-642 denotes a model 600 (6), Rolls-Royce engines (4) and second version of that series (2).

Other divisions

• Aeroinfo Systems
• Airspace Safety Analysis Corporation
• Alteon Training
• Continental Datagraphics
• Jeppesen, formerly Jeppesen Sanderson.
• SBS International

Facilities

• Long Beach, California (McDonnell Douglas aircraft assembly and testing)
• Seattle, Washington (Flight testing for Boeing aircraft except McDonnell Douglas-built aircraft)
• Seattle-Everett, Washington (747, 767, 777, and 787 Dreamliner)
• Seattle-Renton, Washington (737 and former 757)

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