Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a business 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. Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is based in Renton, Washington. In 2006, Boeing received the most orders for a civil aircraft company, overtaking Airbus for the first time since 2000. BCA's President and CEO is James F. Albaugh.
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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 to which the aircraft was first delivered. These two digits are called Boeing customer codes. For instance, a Boeing 747-400 delivered to Malaysia Airlines would take the designation "747-4H6" while a 777-200 delivered to American Airlines would take the designation "777-223". 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
Deliveries
Discontinued aircraft
Boeing
McDonnell Douglas and Douglas Aircraft Company
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 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
- McDonnell Douglas MD-12 - double deck jumbo airliner, canceled
- McDonnell Douglas MD-94X - high-efficiency propfan airliner, canceled
- Boeing Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) Airplane
Organization
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is currently 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
- 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
- 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 subassemblies and future final assembly plant)
See also
References
- ^ The Boeing 747
- ^ a b The Boeing 767 family. Boeing. (1st paragraph implies that the -200 and -300 are out of production)
- ^ a b Boeing 777 Family. Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- ^ Boeing 787-3 Fact Sheet, 787-8 Fact Sheet, 787-9 Fact Sheet. Boeing.
- ^ Gervais, Edward L. (2007-11-29). "Boeing Current and Future Product Review" (PDF). Presentation to Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region 23<suprd Annual Airport Conference. Boeing Commercial Airplanes. pp. 54. Archived from the original on 2008-03-18. http://www.webcitation.org/5WQZbP6nv. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ Anselmo, Joseph C. "Boeing Buys Alenia Share Of 787 Factory". Aviation Week, December 22, 2009.
External links
- Boeing Commercial Airplanes page
- BCA Order summary page and BCA Orders and Deliveries report page
- Facts & Facilities
- newairplane.com
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