Boeing Commercial Airplanes


Boeing Commercial Airplanes is a division of the Boeing Company. It designs, assembles, markets, and sells jet airliners and business jets ; it also provides product-related maintenance and training to customers worldwide. 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. BCA includes the assets of the Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which merged with Boeing in 1997. In late 2016, BCA was home to some 78,000 employees.

Organization

Boeing Commercial Airplanes is organized as:
BCA subsidiaries:
In November 2016, Boeing announced that Ray Conner, 61, would step down immediately and be replaced. Kevin G. McAllister was named president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. McAllister was the first outside recruitment in BCA history, and 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. In October 2019, Boeing ousted Kevin McAllister, the first high-level departure since two fatal crashes of its 737 MAX jets, and replaced him with Stan Deal as president and CEO of BCA. One insider called McAllister a “scapegoat” as he joined BCA late in the 737 MAX development.

Products

Model naming convention

For all models sold beginning with the Boeing 707 in 1957, except the 720, 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 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 or 737-7H4, representing a 737-700 originally ordered by Southwest Airlines. 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", "C" for "convertible" aircraft that can be converted between a passenger and freighter configuration and "M" for "combi" aircraft that are configured to carry both passengers and freight at the same time. 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.

Aircraft in production or development

Expected
EIS
TypeDescriptionNotes
2020777XNew 777 series, with the lengthened 777-9X, and extra-long-range 777-8X. New engine and new composite wings with folding wingtipsRevealed 03/2019
2025-2027Boeing NMAMiddle of the market, between the 737 MAX and the 787 Dreamliner, also meant to replace aging 757s and 767s
after 2030Y1/737RSBoeing 737 replacement

Orders and deliveries

The table below lists only airliners from the jet era.
AircraftOrdersDeliveriesUnfilled
707
856
856
717-200
155
155
720
154
154
727
1,831
1,831
737 Original
1,144
1,144
737 Classic
1,988
1,988
737 NG
7,074
6,981
93
737 MAX
5,011
350
4,661
747
1,418
1,418
747-8
154
130
24
757
1,049
1,049
767
1,244
1,135
109
777
1,687
1,584
103
777X
326
326
787
1,421
789
632
Totals
25,512
19,564
5,948

Data from Boeing through end of January 2019

Discontinued aircraft

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Specialty and other aircraft

Airlines commonly order aircraft with special features or options, but Boeing builds certain models specifically for a particular customer.