Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

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	Kevin G. McAllister (President and CEO of BCA)
Products	737, 747, 767, 777, 787, Boeing Business Jet (BBJ)
Services	Maintenance, Training
Revenue	US$65 billion (FY 2016[1])
Number of employees	72,465 (May 25, 2017)[2]
Parent	The Boeing Company
Website	boeing.com/commercial/
Footnotes / references [3]

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is a division of The Boeing Company. It designs, assembles, markets, and sells jet airliners and business jets (Boeing Business Jets); it also provides product-related maintenance and training to customers worldwide.^[4] It operates from division headquarters in Renton, Washington, with more than a dozen engineering, manufacturing, and assembly facilities located throughout the U.S. and internationally.^[3] BCA includes the assets of the Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which merged with Boeing in 1997.^[5]

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^[6]
• Aviall^[7]
• Aviation Partners Boeing,^[8] a 50/50 joint venture with Aviation Partners Inc.
• Boeing Canada
• Boeing Training & Flight Services (was Alteon Training)^[9]
• CDG^[10]
• Jeppesen, formerly Jeppesen Sanderson.
• Preston Aviation Solutions^[11]
• Global Aeronautica, formerly a 50/50 joint-venture with Alenia Aeronautica^[12]

Management

• Kevin G. McAllister, President and CEO of BCA^[13]

In November 2016, Boeing announced that Ray Conner, 61 years old, would step down immediately and be replaced.^[14] Kevin G. McAllister was named President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA).^[13] McAllister is 53 years old and is a former executive at GE Aviation.^[15][14]

Products

Model naming convention

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, along with the 737 MAX and 777X series.

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

Orders and deliveries

The table below lists only airliners from the jet era.

Data from Boeing through end of July 2017^[25]

Discontinued aircraft

Gallery

• Boeing 7x7 series
• 
  Boeing 707
• 
  Boeing 717
• 
  Boeing 727
• 
  Boeing 737
• 
  Boeing 747
• 
  Boeing 757
• 
  Boeing 767
• 
  Boeing 777
• 
  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^[26]

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.

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

References

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