This article aims at providing a bird’s-eye view of all the Boeing aircraft, with special emphasis on the ones currently in service.

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Boeing: A Short Background

The Boeing Company is an American corporation that designs, manufactures and sells airplanes, rotor-crafts, rockets, satellites and missiles. The current article focuses on the products of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), a division of the Boeing Company. BCA sells both jet airliners and business jets. We are going to focus only on the jet airliners in this article.

Important Aircraft

Most of the Boeing aircraft currently in service are of the 7×7 series. There were a few other planes types, notably, Boeing 40, 80, 95, 307 Stratoliner and 377 Stratocruiser. 

Name	Type	First Flight	Important Variants
707	Narrow-Body	1958	000, 000B, 020, 120, 220, 320, 320B, 321B, 320C, 420, 700, E3A, E6A
717	Narrow-Body	1999	200
727	Narrow-Body	1964	30C, 100, 100C, 100QC, 100QF, 200, 200 Advanced, 200C, 200F, 200F Advanced, Super 27
737	Narrow-Body	1968	100, 200, Classic (300, 400, 500), Next Generation (600, 700, 800, 900), Max (Max7, 8, 9 and 10)
747	Wide-Body	1970	100, 100SR, 100BSR, 100B, 100SP, 200, 300, 400, 8
757	Narrow-Body	1983	200, 200PF, 200M, 200SF, 300
767	Wide-Body	1982	200, 200ER, 300. 300ER, 300F, 400ER
777	Wide-Body	1994	200, 200ER, 200LR (Worldliner), 300, 300ER, 8, 9, X
787 (Dreamliner)	Wide-Body	2011	8, 9, 10

The Boeing Family, In Pictures

A visual history and size comparison of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (except 787) can be seen in the infographic below:

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Cover image credits: By Michael Pereckas from Milwaukee, WI, USA – 787, CC BY 2.0, https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31627474