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PLANESPOTTING

The Boeing Family

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

Note: This article is a part of AIKA Birdspot Series, whose aim is to help you identify
any commercial aircraft in under 5 seconds. To access the series, click here.

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. 

First
Name Type Important Variants
Flight

Narrow- 000, 000B, 020, 120, 220, 320, 320B, 321B,

707 1958
Body 320C, 420, 700, E3A, E6A

Narrow-
717 1999 200
Body

30C, 100, 100C, 100QC, 100QF, 200, 200

Narrow-
727 1964 Advanced, 200C, 200F, 200F Advanced, Super
Body
27 

100, 200, Classic (300, 400, 500), Next

Narrow-
737 1968 Generation (600, 700, 800, 900), Max (Max7,
Body
8, 9 and 10)

Wide- 100, 100SR, 100BSR, 100B, 100SP, 200, 300,

747 1970
Body 400, 8

Narrow-
757 1983 200, 200PF, 200M, 200SF, 300
Body

Wide-
767 1982 200, 200ER, 300. 300ER, 300F, 400ER
Body

Wide- 200, 200ER, 200LR (Worldliner), 300, 300ER,

777 1994
Body 8, 9, X

787 Wide-
2011 8, 9, 10
(Dreamliner) Body

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The Boeing Family, In Pictures

707-321B
By Tim Rees – Gallery page http-//www.airliners.net/photo/Turkish-Airlines/Boeing-707-
321B/1104611/LPhoto http-//cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-
photos/photos/1/1/6/1104611.jpg, GFDL 1.2, https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid
717
By Juergen Lehle – Own work (See also AlbSpotter Flugzeugbilder Aircraft Photos), CC BY-SA 3.0,
https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1571220

727-30C
By Steve Fitzgerald – Website- http-//www.airliners.net/photo/Lufthansa/Boeing-727-
30C/1815012/&sid=7e2d2506874a4ec28213f12edad1a508, GFDL 1.2,
https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18004324
737-201
By Makaristos – Own work, Public Domain, https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
curid=4769029

747-400
By Arpingstone – Own work, Public Domain, https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
curid=426890
757-200
By Juergen Lehle – Own work (See also AlbSpotter Flugzeugbilder Aircraft Photos), CC BY-SA 3.0,
https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=863295

767-200ER
By Cipher01 at the Japanese language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2566343
777-200
By Terence Ong – Own work, CC BY 2.5, https-//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
curid=1798625

787-8
By Spaceaero2 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
curid=17014339

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

(All rights to this image belong to © AviationExplorer.com)

With a sneak peek into the Boeing Commercial Airplanes universe, click here to know
how to identify each Boeing aircraft.