Narrow-body aircraft
A narrow-body aircraft (also known as a single aisle aircraft) is an airliner with a fuselage aircraft cabin width typically of 3 to 4 metres (10 to 13 ft), and airline seat arranged 2 to 6 abreast along a single aisle . Narrow-body aircraft with a range not allowing transatlantic or transcontinental flights are commonly known as regional airliners.
In contrast, a wide-body aircraft is a larger airliner and is usually configured with multiple travel classes with a fuselage diameter of 5 to 7 metres (16 to 20 ft) and twin aisles. Passengers are usually seated 7 to 10 abreast. For comparison, typical wide-body aircraft can accommodate between 200 and 600 passengers, while the highest seating capacity of a narrow-body aircraft (the Boeing 757–300) is 289 passengers.
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Size comparison between an Airbus A320 (narrow-body) and a Boeing 777-300ER (widebody aircraft)
Common narrow-body aircraft types
This Virgin America Airbus A320 is an example of a narrow-body passenger cabin.
This Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 is a popular narrow-body short-medium range airliner. It is one of the more modern narrow body designs.
Seven-abreast
- BAe Trident – Channel Airways family seating configuration was to the only BAe Tridents to have Seven abreast seating.[1]
Six-abreast cabin
- Airbus A320 – currently the world's best selling jet airliner and 2nd best in history, 156 inches (4.0 m) (395 cm) outside width
- Hawker Siddeley Trident - Every Airline that used the Hawker Siddeley Trident except Channel Airways
- Boeing 707 – The first commercially successful jet airliner, 148 inches (3.8 m) outside diameter
- Boeing 720 – Also known as the Boeing 707–20, 148 inches (3.8 m) outside diameter
- Boeing 727 – at one time the most-produced airliner, 148 inches (3.8 m) outside diameter
- Boeing 737 – the world's best selling jet aircraft, surpassing the 727, 148 inches (3.8 m) outside diameter
- Boeing 757 – the manufacturer's largest single-aisle aircraft,148 inches (3.8 m) outside diameter
- Bristol Britannia – turbo-prop aircraft
- Comac C919, 390 cm inside width
- Dassault Mercure – jet aircraft (3.9 m)outside width
- Douglas DC-8, 373 cm outside width
- Irkut MC-21 - jet aircraft in development, 382 cm inside width
- Ilyushin Il-62 - jet aircraft
- Lockheed L-188 Electra – turbo-prop aircraft
- Tupolev Tu-114 – turbo-prop aircraft (4.2 m), the largest and the fastest propeller-driven passenger aircraft
- Tupolev Tu-154 – jet aircraft
- Tupolev Tu-204 – jet aircraft
- Tupolev Tu-334 – jet aircraft
- Vickers VC10, 375 cm outside width
Five-abreast cabin
- Antonov 148 - jet aircraft
- BAC One-Eleven - jet aircraft 320 cm inside width
- BAe 146 – flown as a large regional jet in a 69 seat passenger configuration, 6-abreast in high-density 3.5 metres (140 in) outside diameter
- Bombardier CSeries, 328 cm inside width
- Comac ARJ21, 314 cm inside width
- Convair 880, 325 cm inside width
- Convair 990
- de Havilland Comet – the world's first jet airliner
- Fokker F28 – jet aircraft 3.3 metres (130 in)
- Fokker 70 – jet aircraft
- Fokker 100 – regional jet aircraft 3.3 metres (130 in) outside diameter
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9 – 3.4 metres (130 in) outside width
- McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90 – a development of the DC-9, 3.4 metres (130 in) outside diameter
- Boeing 717 – the latest iteration of the DC-9, 3.4 metres (130 in) outside diameter
- Sukhoi Superjet 100 – 323 cm inside width
- Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle – First-generation European jet airliner.
- Boeing 377 Stratocruiser – piston aircraft
- Douglas DC-4 – piston aircraft
- Douglas DC-6 – piston aircraft
- Douglas DC-7 – piston aircraft
- Ilyushin Il-18 - turbo-prop aircraft
- Lockheed Constellation – piston aircraft
- Vickers Viscount – the world's first turboprop airliner
Four-abreast cabin
- Antonov An-24 - turbo-prop aircraft
- ATR 42 - turbo-prop aircraft
- ATR 72 - turbo-prop aircraft
- Bombardier Dash 8 - turbo-prop aircraft
- Bombardier CRJ
- Concorde
- Convair CV-240
- Douglas DC-3 – piston aircraft
- Embraer E-Jet family
- Tupolev Tu-144 – the world's first supersonic airliner, first flew on 31 December 1968, two months before the first flight of Concorde
Three-abreast cabin
- Embraer EMB 120
- Embraer ERJ 145 family
- Saab 340
- Saab 2000
- Shorts 360
See also
- List of regional airliners
- Wide-body aircraft
- Operating or proposed short haul regional and jet airliners
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References
- ↑ "Variants". Shockcone.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-01-19.