Boeing Commercial Airplanes - Definition and Overview

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.

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 B720
  • 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, an ill-fated 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

Other divisions

BCA also owns the following companies:

• Aeroinfo Systems
• Airspace Safety Analysis Corporation
• Alteon Training
• Continental Datagraphics
• Jeppesen Sanderson
• SBS International

Facilities

• Long Beach, California
• Wichita, Kansas
• Seattle, Washington
• Seattle-Everett, Washington
• Seattle-Renton, Washington