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A Boeing 707-100 ordered by Qantas with customer code 38 would be designated as 707-138. A Boeing 717-200 ordered by Hawaiian Airlines with customer code 2A would be designated as 717-22A. A Boeing 727-100 and 727-200 ordered by American Airlines with customer code 23 are designated as 727-23 or 727-123 [note 2] and 727-223, respectively.
Boeing's customer codes used to identify specific options and livery specified by customers was started with the 707, and has been maintained through all Boeing's models. In essence the same system as used on the earlier Boeing 377, the code consisted of two digits affixed to the model number to identify the specific aircraft version.
Airlines commonly order aircraft with special features or options, but Boeing builds certain models specifically for a particular customer. The Boeing 707-138B was a shortened-fuselage, long-range model only sold to Qantas. The Boeing 757-200M was a single-example model built for Royal Nepal Airlines (now called Nepal Airlines). This plane ...
The first sequence was announced at an ICAO congress in 1956, two years before the first 707 was delivered to Pan Am. And some codes originally assigned to were reassigned to others, while others remained with the airline, e.g. BOAC's (now British Airways') Boeing customer code is 36, so a Boeing 747-400 delivered to BA was a 747-436.
Romanian Government (Romavia) Saudi Arabia. Royal Saudi Air Force. Saudi Arabian Royal Flight. South Africa. South African Air Force. Spain. Spanish Air Force operated four Boeing 707s — two tankers, one cargo aircraft and one configured for electronic warfare. The final one was retired on 3 October 2016 [16]
The grounded aircraft included ten or so DC-9s, with the balance of the 15 to 20 being a mix of 10 Boeing 757s and 4 Airbus A320s. The airline's average fleet age was 18.5 years by the end of 2009. [5] The Boeing customer code for Northwest Airlines was 7x7-x51 (i.e. 747-451).
The Boeing 720 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Announced in July 1957 as a 707 derivative for shorter flights from shorter runways, the 720 first flew on November 23, 1959. Its type certificate was issued on June 30, 1960, and it entered service with United Airlines on July 5, 1960.
The operation made Kuwait Airways the 22nd customer of the type worldwide. [45] The airframer handed over the first Boeing 777-200 in early 1998. [48] [49] In December 1998 a code-share agreement was signed with Trans World Airlines to begin in the Spring of 1999. [50]