Boeing Aircraft

Boeing Model 1 1916 Worthy of brief mention as the very first of the long line of Boeing aircraft, ... read more ... Boeing B-1 1919 Boeing Model 15 / PW-9 / FB 1923 read more ... Having become recognised as a designer of military aircraft, following the supply of Model ... read more ... Boeing Model 21 1924 Boeing Model 40 1925 To meet the requirements of the Air Mail Department of the US Post Office, which ... read more ... In April 1925 the USAAC issued a specification for a single-seat fighter to be powered ... read more ... Boeing F2B / Model 69 1926 Boeing XP-4 1926 The last aircraft built by Boeing against an order for 30 PW-9 single-seat fighters was ... read more ... The XP-8 (Model 66) actually preceded the XP-7, being delivered in July 1927, having been ... read more ... Boeing XP-8 / Model 66 1927 Boeing Model 74 / XF3B-1 1927 The XF3B-1 (Model 74) was built by Boeing as a private venture and externally resembled closely ... read more ... The XF3B-1 (Model 74) was built by Boeing as a private venture and externally resembled ... read more ... Boeing F3B / Model 77 1928 Boeing Model 80 1928 The growth of operations on Boeing Air Transport's San Francisco-Chicago route resulted in the design ... read more ... The final production PW-9D (the 16th) was retained by Boeing for the experimental installation of ... read more ... Boeing XP-7 / Model 93 1928 Boeing F4B / P-12 1929 One of the most famous of Boeing's biplane fighters of the inter-war years, the F4B originated ... read more ... With continuing requirement for aircraft of the cargo/mail-carrying category, Boeing began the development of a ... read more ... Boeing Model 200 Monomail 1930 Boeing XP-9 1930 In May 1928, the USAAC issued a single-seat fighter specification to which Boeing responded with a shoulder-wing ... read more ... Generally similar to the Model 200 Monomail, this single aircraft had a fuselage lengthened ... read more ... Boeing Model 221 Monomail 1930 Boeing XP-15 / XF5B-1 1930 During the course of 1929, work began as a private venture on two prototypes of a ... read more ... In 1930 Boeing began the private-venture development of a bomber aircraft that, hopefully, would succeed ... read more ... Boeing Model 214, 215, 246 / YB-9, Y1B-9 1931 Boeing P-26 "Peashooter" 1933 The P-26 Peashooter was Boeing's first and last production monoplane fighter. Some 111 P-26A, 2 ... read more ... On 8 February 1933, Boeing flew the prototype of a new civil airliner which was ... read more ... Boeing 247 1933 Boeing XF6B-1 / Model 236 1933 The last Boeing fighter of biplane configuration, the Model 236 single-seat shipboard fighter was designed around the ... read more ... Designed to meet the requirements of a US Navy specification issued on 6 December 1932, the ... read more ... Boeing XF7B-1 / Model 273 1933 Boeing YP-29 1934 The P-29 or company Model 264 was a Boeing effort to improve upon the already ... read more ... However determined the majority of Americans might have been in the 1930s to maintain the ... read more ... Boeing Model 294 / XB-15 / XC-105 1937 Boeing 307 / C-75 "Stratoliner" 1938 In early 1934 Boeing began design studies for a multi-engine bomber and a basically similar ... read more ... Frustrated in their efforts to acquire a fleet of strategic bombers for service with the ... read more ... Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 1939 Boeing 314 "Clipper" 1939 As early as January 1935, Pan American Airways had signified to the US Bureau of ... read more ... The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 made it essential that USAAC planners should ... read more ... Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" 1942 Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger 1942 In 1940 the solution to German U-boats off the US east coast was deemed to be ... read more ... US Navy carriers operating in the Pacific during World War II were, like similar vessels ... read more ... Boeing XF8B 1944 Boeing 367 / C-97 1944 In early 1942 Boeing initiated a design study to examine the feasibility of producing a ... read more ... The B-50's development was approved in 1944, when the aircraft was known as the B-29D. ... read more ... Boeing B-50 1947 Boeing B-47 "Stratojet" 1950 The B-47's production was spurred in 1944 by the War Department's demand for jet bombers. ... read more ... The Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser was a commercial transport development of the Model 367 (military ... read more ... Boeing 377 "Stratocruiser" 1950 Boeing B-52 "Stratofortress" 1954 Most post-World War II bombers evolved from military requirements issued in the early or mid-forties, ... read more ... First flight Model 367-80, original prototype of 707 and 717, 15 July 1954; developed version ... read more ... Boeing 707 1954 Boeing 720 1959 The Boeing 720 is the intermediate-range member of the Boeing jet transport family. Although a ... read more ... In August 1954, the USAF announced that it intended to procure a number of tanker/transports ... read more ... Boeing Model 717 / KC-135 Stratotanker / C-135 Stratolifter 1961 Boeing 727 1963 First 727-100 rolled out 27 November 1962; first flight 9 February 1963; FAA certification 24 ... read more ... First flight of 737-100, 9 April 1967; FAA certification 15 December 1967. Superseded by 737-200; ... read more ... Boeing 737 1967 Boeing SST 1968 The Boeing 2707 stemmed from President Kennedy's June 1963 call for a supersonic transport (SST) to ... read more ... Programme announced 13 April 1966 (first ever wide-body jet airliner), with Pan American order for ... read more ... Boeing 747 1969 Boeing E-3A "Sentry" 1972 The requirement for an Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) aircraft was outlined by the ... read more ... In 1971 the USAF began to put together the specification of a new transport as ... read more ... Boeing YC-14 1976 Boeing 767 1981 Announced simultaneously with the Model 757, the Boeing Model 767 introduced a completely new fuselage ... read more ... Increased-capacity versions of the highly successful Boeing Model 727 have been studied over the years, ... read more ... Boeing 757 1982 Boeing 777 1994 First flew on June 12, 1994. Entered service in 1995. ... read more ... The Boeing X-32 was a multi-purpose jet fighter in the Joint Strike Fighter contest. It ... read more ... Boeing X-32 2000