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The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington.Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating but with two underwing Pratt & Whitney JT8D low-bypass turbofan engines.
Description: This Boeing 737-204 took its first flight on March 31, 1977...(c/n 21335/ 487) 13/04/1977 Britannia Airways G-BECG 14/02/1994 GB Leisure G-BECG 01/11/1994 COPA Airlines G-BECG 28/04/1995 GB Leisure G-BECG 10/11/1995 EasyJet G-BECG 01/05/1997 Virgin Express G-BECG 30/12/1997 FSB N102TR 20/02/1998 LAPA LV-PNO 01/11/1998 LAPA LV-YXB
This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The texts in the diagram are clickable links to articles. Timeline ...
One such example is the order for sixteen 737-800s taken over by Qantas from American Airlines after the September 11 attacks in 2001 - these aircraft were delivered with Qantas' 38 code rather than 23 for American. Also, 2 747-200Bs purchased by British Airways were sold while under construction, to Malaysian Airline System and remained 747-236Bs.
The initial 737-300 (foreground) is 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) longer than the 737-200 (background) and is re-engined with wider and more efficient CFM56 turbofans. Following the success of the Boeing 737-200 Advanced, Boeing wanted to increase capacity and range, incorporating improvements to upgrade the plane to modern specifications, while also retaining commonality with previous 737 variants.
In 2002, rival airline Go Fly was purchased for £374 million; the airline inherited three new bases from Go, at Bristol Airport, East Midlands Airport and London Stansted Airport; the acquisition of Go almost doubled the number of Boeing 737-300 aircraft in the EasyJet fleet. [6] [22] In 2002, the airline opened its base at Gatwick Airport.
737 MAX 7: Successor of the 737-700 with new engines Revealed 08/2011 2025 [25] 737 MAX 10: Fourth generation of the 737. Lengthened 737 MAX 9. Direct competitor of the Airbus A321neo Revealed 06/2017 2025 [26] 777X: New 777 series, with the lengthened 777-9X, and extra-long-range 777-8X. New engine and new composite wings with folding wingtips ...
The list of Boeing 737 operators and owners lists both former and current operators of the aircraft. Southwest Airlines is the largest Boeing 737 operator This transport-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .