Boeing Begins Building the 5,000th 737

[Midnight Mike]

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What an impressive aircraft the 737 has turned out to be, sometimes, it is just incredible how many different versions of the 737 that have been built

Commercial
737-100 to the 737-900ER
P8 (P3 replacement)
BBJ (Boeing Business Jet)
C40A, C40B, C40C.
I think the 737 is also the Australia AWACS bird.



Press Release Source: Boeing Co.

Boeing Begins Building the 5,000th 737
Thursday January 12, 2:03 pm ET

SEATTLE, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA - News) today begins final assembly of the 5,000th 737 in the Boeing manufacturing facility in Renton, Wash. The airplane, a 737-700 destined for Southwest Airlines, will be delivered next month. The wings and landing gear shown here are being joined to the 737-700 fuselage. Last-stage assembly and interiors installation will begin once the airplane joins the moving assembly line. In December 2005, sales for the 737 surpassed 6,000. To date, 231 customers have ordered 6,099 of the single-aisle passenger jet, which Boeing has manufactured since 1967.

[LGA777]

With WN so into Special schemes and with their entire existence being tied to Boeing and the 737 I hope they plan to do some sort of Special scheme on number 5000 !

Cheers

LGA777

[cancidas]

wow... thats friggin amazing. wonder how many other types are built in those numbers.

[Tom_Turner]

wow... thats friggin amazing. wonder how many other types are built in those numbers.

Well Matt - not too many... :lol:

The Douglas DC-3, if you want to count classic props... was built to the tune of over 10 thousand including all variants.

After that, I think you'd probably have to get into GA and choppers...which is something else. 42 thousand Cessna 172s for example.. 7 thousand Bell Jet Rangers.. etc.. But even there, not too many types surpassing total 737 numbers.

[Ari707]

or maybe some of the old russian designs may come close..

[TimD]

I think the 737 is also the Australia AWACS bird
Hi Mike,
The Aussie version of the 737 is called the Wedgetail.
You probably also are aware that two BBJs are operated by the RAAF.

Tim.

PS - Don't forget the 3 versions of the BBJ! 8)