Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is a
division of the
Boeing Company. It
designs, assembles, markets, and sells commercial aircraft, including the
737,
767,
777, and
787, along with
freighter and
business jet
A business jet, private jet, or bizjet is a jet aircraft designed for transporting small groups of people, typically business executives and high-ranking coworker, associates. Business jets are generally designed for faster air travel and more ...
variants of most. The division employs nearly 35,000 people, many working at the company's division headquarters in
Renton, Washington, or at more than a dozen engineering, manufacturing, and assembly facilities, notably the
Everett Factory and
Renton Factory (both outside of
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...
), and the
South Carolina Factory.
It includes the assets of the
Douglas Aircraft division of the former
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which merged with Boeing in 1997.
As of the end of 2021, BCA employed about 35,926 people.
Organization
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is organized as:
* Airplane Programs
**
Boeing Renton Factory 737
**
Boeing Everett Factory 767 and
777
**
Boeing South Carolina 787
** Fabrication Division
** Global Partners
** Propulsion Systems
* Commercial Aviation Services
BCA subsidiaries:
* Aeroinfo Systems
* Aviall
* Aviation Partners Boeing, a 50/50 joint venture with
Aviation Partners Inc.
*
Boeing Canada
*
Boeing Capital
* Boeing Training & Flight Services (was Alteon Training)
* CDG
*
Jeppesen, formerly Jeppesen Sanderson.
* Preston Aviation Solutions
Management
In November 2016,
Boeing
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announced that
Ray Conner would step down immediately as BCA's president and CEO.
He was succeeded by
Kevin G. McAllister,
who was the first outside recruitment in BCA history. McAllister was instructed by
Dennis Muilenburg to triple revenue from aftermarket services from $15 billion to a target of $50 billion over 10 years, with a new purpose-built unit headed by Stan Deal.
Keith Leverkuhn was the vice president and general manager of the
737 MAX program in March 2017 when it received certification.
McAllister was eventually ousted by
Boeing
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in October 2019, in the midst of a company crisis following two fatal crashes of its
737 MAX jets. Stan Deal succeeded him in both of his positions.
One insider called McAllister a "scapegoat" as he had only joined BCA during the later stages of the 737 MAX's development.
In March 2024, Deal was in turn replaced by Stephanie Pope, formerly head of the Boeing Global Services division.
In December 2024, Boeing announced that it would be laying off over 500 workers in California due to over $6 billion in losses during the third quarter of 2024 caused by worker strikes and other delays.
Products
Model naming convention
For all models sold beginning with the
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial first flew on Decembe ...
in 1957, except the
Boeing 720, Boeing's naming system for commercial airliners has taken the form of 7X7 (X representing a number). All model designations from 707 through
787 have been assigned, leaving 797 as the only 7X7 model name not assigned to a product.
For models 707 to
777, the full model number consists of an airplane's model number, for example, 707 or
747, followed by a hyphen 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
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and more commonly known as Pan Am, was an airline that was the principal and largest international air carrier and unofficial overseas flag carrier of the United States for ...
(Boeing customer code 21) or 737-7H4, representing a
737-700 originally ordered by
Southwest Airlines (Boeing customer code H4). Codes do not change for aircraft transferred from one airline to another. 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), "SR" or "D" for "short range" and "domestic" (
747-400D,
747SR), 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 April 2023
Discontinued aircraft
Gallery
File:Boeing 707-138B Qantas Jett Clipper Ella N707JT.jpg, Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial first flew on Decembe ...
File:Delta Air Lines Boeing 717-2BD N966AT.jpg, Boeing 717
The Boeing 717 is an American five-abreast narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The Twinjet, twin-engine airliner was developed for the 100-seat market and originally marketed by McDonnell Dougla ...
File:Azerbaijan Airlines Boeing 727-235; 4K-AZ2@FRA, July 1996 (5695398251).jpg, Boeing 727
File:South African Airlink Boeing 737-200 Advanced Smith.jpg, Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Boeing Renton Factory, Renton factory in Washington (state), Washington.
Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the t ...
File:Pan Am Boeing 747-121 N732PA Bidini.jpg, Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body aircraft, wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
After the introduction of the Boeing 707, 707 in October 1958, Pan Am ...
File:Icelandair Boeing 757-256 Wedelstaedt.jpg, Boeing 757
The Boeing 757 is an American Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
The then-named 7N7, a twinjet successor for the trijet Boeing 727, 727, received its first orders in August 1978.
The ...
File:Delta Air Lines B767-332 N130DL.jpg, Boeing 767
File:United Airlines - N776UA (8412749328).jpg, Boeing 777
File:All Nippon Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner JA801A OKJ in flight.jpg, Boeing 787 Dreamliner
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
Nepal Airlines Corporation (), formerly known as Royal Nepal Airlines (), is the flag carrier of Nepal. Founded in 1958, it is the oldest airline of the country. Out of its main base at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, the airline ope ...
). 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 (now named the Dreamlifter) is a wide-body cargo aircraft.
** The
747SP production resumed nearly four years after the supposedly final 747SP was built. 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.
** Four Boeing
747-100SRs were built for Japan Airlines for a domestic flight service.
** Nine Boeing 747-100Bs were built for Iran Air and Saudi Arabian Airlines, which had a stronger airframe and landing gear, as well as an increased fuel capacity.
* 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
file:concorde.highup.arp.750pix.jpg, The Concorde supersonic transport had an ogive, ogival delta wing, a slender fuselage and four underslung Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines.
file:Tu-144.jpg, The Tupolev Tu-144 was the first SST to enter s ...
, canceled
*
Boeing 7J7 – high-efficiency
propfan airliner, canceled
*
Boeing 747-300 Trijet – high-efficiency
trijet
A trijet is a jet aircraft powered by three jet engines. In general, passenger airline trijets are considered to be second-generation jet airliners, due to their innovative engine locations, in addition to the advancement of turbofan technology. ...
version of the
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body aircraft, wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
After the introduction of the Boeing 707, 707 in October 1958, Pan Am ...
-200, canceled
*
Boeing 777-100/777 trijet – the original proposed version of the
Boeing 777
*
Boeing New Large Airplane – double-deck jumbo airliner, canceled
*
Boeing New Midsize Airplane – targeting the
middle of the market segment
*
Boeing RC-1 – cargo aircraft, canceled
*
Boeing Sonic Cruiser – near-sonic airliner, canceled
* Boeing Liquid Hydrogen (LH
2) airplane that uses
liquid hydrogen as fuel
*
Hypersonic Airliner Concept.
Mach 5 speed
* Boeing 747-500 – larger ultra-haul version of the Boeing 747
*
Boeing X-66 – experimental
Transonic Truss-Braced Wing airliner
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
The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (), formerly Beriev Design Bureau, is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (design office prefix Be), specializing in amphibious aircraft.
The company was founded in Taganrog in 1934 as OKB-49 by Georgy Mikhailovich B ...
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 and Tu-80.
Major facilities
*
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the list of United States cities by population, 44th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 451,307 as of 2022. A charter ci ...
– Former McDonnell Douglas aircraft assembly, currently supports Boeing Commercial Airplanes
*
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...
–
Puget Sound region,
Washington
**
Boeing Field,
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...
– Final delivery of 737, flight testing of all aircraft
**
Boeing Everett Factory,
Everett – 767 and 777 production and final assembly plant, largest building in the world
**
Boeing Renton Factory,
Renton – 737 production and final assembly plant
*
Boeing South Carolina,
North Charleston, South Carolina – 787 production and final assembly plant
See also
*
Airbus
Airbus SE ( ; ; ; ) is a Pan-European aerospace corporation. The company's primary business is the design and manufacturing of commercial aircraft but it also has separate Airbus Defence and Space, defence and space and Airbus Helicopters, he ...
*
ATR (aircraft manufacturer)
*
Bombardier Aerospace
*
Comac
*
Competition between Airbus and Boeing
*
Embraer
*
List of civil aircraft
*
United Aircraft Corporation
References
External links
Boeing Commercial Airplanes pageBoeing Commercial home pageBCA Recent orders summary pagean
BCA Orders and Deliveries report pageOfficial site for Boeing's new airplanes
BBC Q&A: Boeing and Airbus
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Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in Renton, Washington
Manufacturing companies based in Washington (state)
Collier Trophy recipients