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#2329· ICAO MD11

McDonnell Douglas MD-11

🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1990· wide-body jet airliner

🛫 airliner 3× jet retired
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. KLM McDonnell Douglas MD-11 PH-KCK Ingrid Bergman: KLM_McDonnell_Douglas_MD-11_PH-KCK.jpg : Boushh_TFA from Kortenhoef, The Netherlands derivative work: Altair78 ( talk )· CC BY-SA 2.0
  2. 2. McDonnell Douglas MD-11F: Kambui· CC BY 2.0
  3. 3. American Airlines MD-11 (6202604363): contri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan· CC BY-SA 2.0
  4. 4. Fedex-md11-N525FE-051109-21-16: Alan Radecki Akradecki· CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. 5. Finnair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (OH-LGB) landing at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport: Te00 16:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)· Public domain
  6. 6. McDonnell Douglas MD-11, American Airlines AN0195051: JetPix· GFDL 1.2
  7. 7. McDonnell Douglas MD-11, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines JP6102340: Dale Coleman· GFDL 1.2
  8. 8. McDonnell Douglas MD-11P KLM PH-KCC: Björn Strey· CC BY-SA 2.0
  9. 9. N259UP - McDonnell Douglas MD-11F - UPS (cropped): Colin Brown· CC BY 2.0
  10. 10. VP-BDR MD11F AFL loading (4473477269) (2): Maarten Visser from Capelle aan den IJssel, Nederland· CC BY-SA 2.0
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McDonnell Douglas MD-11, photo 1 of 10
1/10 KLM_McDonnell_Douglas_MD-11_PH-KCK.jpg : Boushh_TFA from Kortenhoef, The Netherlands derivative work: Altair78 ( talk )· CC BY-SA 2.0

what is it?

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is an American trijet wide-body airliner which was manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later by Boeing. The MD-11 is the largest trijet ever built. Following DC-10 development studies, the MD-11 program was launched on December 30, 1986.

How to recognise it: 3 jet engines · low wing · retractable tricycle gear · 51.7 m wingspan

base stats

  • built 200made 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 36 years ago, in 1990.
  • Wingspan of 51.7 m: about 11 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Can fly 1.5× 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
1990-01-10
introduced
1990
retired
2014
status
retired
number built
200
role
wide-body jet airliner
origin
🇺🇸 United States
makers
Boeing, McDonnell Douglas
engines
3× jet
length
61.2 m
wingspan
51.7 m
height
17.6 m
top speed
—
range
—
ceiling
13,000 m
wings
low wing
landing gear
retractable tricycle gear
ICAO code
MD11

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

Sources: Wikidata Q62161, Wikipedia: McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (CC BY-SA 4.0), ICAO code from list of aircraft type designators.Updated 2026-10-24.

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