Boeing keeping very busyEver wonder really how many airplanes Boeing can deliver in 90 days? We’ve seen the pictures of their mammoth factory, which looks to the untrained eye like complete chaos…parts and pieces strewn everywhere. But when their craftsmen and technicians bolt those pieces together, the company is able to deliver quite a few birds.
Here are their first quarter delivery numbers for 2006, released today:
Commercial Airplanes Programs
717.....2
737 (Next Generation).....72
747.....4
767.....3
777.....17
Total.....98
Integrated Defense Systems Programs
AH-64D (New Builds).....9
C-17.....4
F/A-18E/F.....10