Boeing 717

what is it?

The Boeing 717 is an American five-abreast narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The twin-engine airliner was developed for the 100-seat market and originally marketed by McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s as the McDonnell Douglas MD-95 until the company merged with Boeing in August 1997. It was a shortened derivative of McDonnell Douglas’ successful airliner, the MD-80, and part of the company's broader DC-9 family.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 jet engines · low wing · retractable tricycle gear · 28.5 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 911 km/htop speed
• range 2,645 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 106passengers
• size 49.9 tmax take-off weight
• built 156made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 28 years ago, in 1998.
• 🏎️Top speed is 7.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 28.5 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 2,645 km: 15× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.3× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.

spec sheet

first flight

1998-09-02

introduced

1999

status

still flying

number built

156

role

narrow-body jet airliner

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Boeing

engines

2× Rolls-Royce BR715-A1-30

crew

2

passengers

106

length

37.8 m

wingspan

28.5 m

height

9 m

max take-off weight

49.9 t

top speed

911 km/h

cruise speed

811 km/h

range

2,645 km

ceiling

11,278 m

wings

low wing

landing gear

retractable tricycle gear

ICAO code

B712

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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