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A narrow-body aircraft or single-aisle aircraft is an airliner arranged along a single aisle, permitting up to 6-abreast seating in a cabin less than 4 metres (13 ft) in width. In contrast, a wide-body aircraft is a larger airliner usually configured with multiple aisles and a fuselage diameter of more than 5 metres (16 ft), allowing at least ...
American Airbus A320 family aircraft at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. As of February 2025, American Airlines operates 981 mainline aircraft, making it the third largest commercial airline fleet in the world. [1] [2] [3] The fleet consists of Airbus and Boeing narrow-body aircraft, and all Boeing wide-body aircraft.
Airbus A340, [40] Airbus A380, [41] and Boeing 747 [42] four-engine wide-body aircraft are used to test new generations of aircraft engines in flight. A few aircraft have also been converted for aerial firefighting, such as the DC-10-based [43] Tanker 910 and the 747-200-based Evergreen Supertanker. [44] Some wide-body aircraft are used as VIP ...
A majority will be medium-thrust engines for narrow-body aircraft with 54,000 deliveries, for a fleet growing from 28,500 to 61,000. High-thrust engines for wide-body aircraft , worth 40–45% of the market by value, will grow from 12,700 engines to over 21,000 with 18,500 deliveries.
The CJ-1000A is being developed for the Comac C919 narrow-body airliner with a thrust of 98–196 kN; 22,000–44,000 lbf. [2]It has a diameter of 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) and a length of 3.29 m (10.8 ft), compared with the 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) diameter and 3.32 m (10.9 ft) length of the CFM LEAP-1C.
Since 2000, both narrow-body and wide-body trijet production has ceased for almost all commercial aircraft, being replaced by twinjets. As of 2016, the Falcon 7X, 8X, and 900 business jets, all of which use S-ducts , are the only trijets in production.
In the early 1970s, following the launch of the first wide-body airliner, the 747, Boeing began considering further developments of its narrow-body 727. [4] Designed for short and medium length routes, [5] the trijet was the best-selling jetliner of the 1960s and a mainstay of the U.S. domestic airline market.
The Airbus A320 family are narrow-body (single-aisle) aircraft with a retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing pylon-mounted turbofan engines. After the oil price rises of the 1970s , Airbus needed to minimise the trip fuel costs of the A320.