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Happy 100th Birthday Boeing

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Updated: October 20, 2022

In 1916, Boeing delivered its first airplane, the Boeing B&W. 100 years later they’ve produced and delivered tens of thousands of airplanes, and nearly 10,000 of the 737 alone. We took a few family portraits to see how many Boeing aircraft are up in the air today. Happy 100th Birthday Boeing!

A Boeing Airplanes Family Portrait

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The 7 Series

737

The most numerous Boeing airplane in skies, at any given time there are thousands of 737s in flight. When we took our portrait, we were tracking 2,882 737s.

747

The Jumbo Jet or Queen of the Skies, the 747 is perhaps the most iconic airplane in the world.

757

767

777

Boeing’s most popular wide-body aircraft, with over 600 in the air right now.

787

The 787 is Boeing’s newest all-new aircraft, first taking flight in 2009.

Happy birthday Boeing. Here’s to another century of flight!

Published: July 15, 2016

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Ian Petchenik

Ian Petchenik’s love of aviation began at an early age growing up next to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. As Flightradar24’s director of communications and co-host of the AvTalk podcast Ian now gets to share that passion for aviation with millions of Flightradar24 users and listeners around the world.

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