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Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), based in Renton, Washington, is a unit of The Boeing Company, consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division,) as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
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Products
Discontinued Boeing aircraft
- 247
- 314 "Clipper"
- 377 "Stratocruiser" (civil version of the military B-29)
- 717 (formerly the MD-95, evolved from the Douglas DC-9 series)
- 707, also sold as the 720
- 727
- 757
Discontinued Douglas or McDonnell Douglas aircraft
- DC-8
- DC-9
- DC-10 (also available as the MD-10 upgrade)
- MD-80 Series (stretched version of the DC-9)
- MD-90 (stretched and modernized version of the MD-80)
- MD-11, a variation of the DC-10
Concepts
- 2707, a cancelled supersonic transport
- 7J7
- Sonic Cruiser
Current
- 737
- 747
- 767
- 777
- Boeing Business Jet, a 50/50 joint venture with General Electric
Future
- 787 "Dreamliner", previously known as the 7E7
- Russian Regional Jet, risk sharing partner with Sukhoi
- 747 Advanced
- 737 NGx
Boeing Customer Code
- 01: US Airways
- 06: KLM
- 12: Singapore Airlines
- 19: Air New Zealand
- 20: Boeing
- 21: Pan American Airways
- 22: United Airlines
- 23: American Airlines
- 24: Continental Airlines
- 27: Braniff
- 28: Air France
- 30: Deutsche Lufthansa
- 31: TWA
- 32: Delta Air Lines
- 36: British Airways
- 38: Qantas
- 46: Japan Airlines
- 48: Air Lingus
- 51: Northwest Airlines
- 5E: Eva Air Taiwan
- 5S: Czech Airlines
- 67: Cathay Pacific
- 6K: Vietnam Airlines
- 81: All Nippon Airways
- 89: Japan Air System
- 8E: Asiana Airlines S.Korea
- AS: Ryanair
- H4: Southwest Airlines USA
- K5: Hapag-Lloyd-TUI
- Q3: Southwest Air Lines/ Japan TransOcean Air
- R7: China Airlines Taiwan
Other divisions
BCA also owns the following companies:
- Aeroinfo Systems
- Airspace Safety Analysis Corporation
- Alteon Training
- Continental Datagraphics
- Jeppesen Sanderson
- SBS International
Facilities
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