Manufactures of Aeroplanes- Boeing,Airbus and others.

Every time when you see a report on the airlines in the newspaper like accident or emergency landing, you must have noticed that they always mention the name of the plane like “The plane diverted to Mumbai was a Boeing-777 of Emirates or Airbus-330 of Qatar airways”. So what they belong to or what they represent? In this blog I am going to write all about the manufactures of planes?

In any market there are always 2 sides. One who sells and another who purchases. In our case there are so many manufactures of  planes. Like Boeing from USA, Airbus From Europe and that’s it. 2/3^rd of  planes currently flying commercially are made by one of these 2 manufactures. You can clearly see the dominance of these 2 companies in the aviation industry, but what about the rest 1/3^rd?

                             

Rest are made by so many small companies like Embraer from Brazil, Bombardier from Canada.

These 4 companies  are actually ruling the skies since the DAY 1 of commercial aviation . Now Boeing is famous for the jumbo 747 , Airbus is famous for the super jumbo 380, Embraer is famous for E-jet family and Bombardier for CRJ family and C series.


First talk about the Embraer and Bombardier. These 2 companies are famous for making small planes. The Embraer  E jets are quite efficient in small airports and they can land on short runways,steep approach angles. In USA there are more than 400 airports and many of them are small airports. At these airports Embraer and Bombardier planes rule as the planes need there should be small and many airports have noise restrictions . So these planes can land easily over there.

CRJ-1000

C SERIES

CRJ VS ERJ

Now let’s talk about the new giant of the industry. THE AIRBUS. The company has plane models like starts from here- A300,A310,A318,A319,A320,A321,A330,A340,A350,A380. Here A denotes for Airbus and the number after that denotes the model no. Each no signifies the type,range and capacity,weight of plane . In the table below you can clearly see the details of these numbers and if you switch between any number the aircraft will be a different one. There is a skill to distinguish between the planes. The Popular plane from the airbus is A320 and A380. The A320 family consists of 318,319,320 and 321. More than 5000 planes are sold and The A380 is the biggest passenger plane in the world & One can easily distinguish the A380 as it has a fully double décor fuselage.

Product list and details (date information from Airbus)
Aircraft	Description	Seats	Max	1st flight	Production ceased
A300	2 engines, twin aisle	228–254	361	1972-10-28	2007-03-27 (561 built)
A310	2 engines, twin aisle, modified A300	187	279	1982-04-03	2007-03-27 (255 built)
A318	2 engines, single aisle, shortened 6.17 m from A320	107	132	2002-01-15
A319	2 engines, single aisle, shortened 3.77 m from A320	124	156	1995-08-25
A320	2 engines, single aisle	150	180	1987-02-22
A321	2 engines, single aisle, lengthened 6.94 m from A320	185	236	1993-03-11
A330	2 engines, twin aisle	246—300	406–440	1992-11-02
A340	4 engines, twin aisle	239–380	380-440	1991-10-25	2008-09 (A340-200) 2011-11-10 (all other variants, 377 built)
A350	2 engines, twin aisle	270–350	550	2013-06-14
A380	4 engines, double deck, twin aisle	555	853	2005-04-27

These are some pictures of the Airbus planes from every model.

318

319

320

321

330

340

350

380

Now let’s talk about the mega giant of the aviation BOEING. The company models start like this-B737,B747,B767,B787 . Here B stands for boeing and after that the number signifies the type of aircraft . Many of you may ask about 707,727 but they were gone. They rarely exist. Boeing 737 is one of the successful planes in all over the world and recently boeing launched it’s 737 max version. More than 10,000 737s were already built and it’s still running smoothly. On average , a 737 takes off or lands somewhere on earth every 5 seconds. Boeing is also known for the 747 or called as the queen of the sky. I had already posted a blog about 747.Here are some of the numbers-

Product list and details
Aircraft model	Number built[	Description	Capacity	First flight	Variants in production	Out-of-production variants
737	10,000	Twin‑engine, single aisle, short- to medium-rangenarrow-body	85–215	April 9, 1967	700, 800, 900ER, BBJ, C-40, 737 AEW&C, P-8, 737 MAX	100, 200, 200C/Adv, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700ER, 900
747	1,554	Heavy, four‑engine, partial double deck, twin–aisle main deck, single–aisle upper deck, medium- to long-range widebody	467–605	February 9, 1969	8I, 8F, BBJ	100, 100SR/B, 200, 200F/C, SP, 200M, 300, 300M/SR, 400, 400M/D/F/ER/ERF, VC-25, E-4, YAL-1
767	1,105	Heavy, twin-engine, twin aisle, medium- to long-range widebody	180–375	September 26, 1981	300ER (limited), 300F, KC-767, KC-46, E-767	200, 200ER, 300, 400ER
777	1,633	Heavy, twin-engine, twin aisle, medium- to long-range, ultra long-range (200LR), widebody	301–550	June 12, 1994	200ER, 200LR, 300ER, Freighter	200, 300
787	625	Heavy, twin-engine, twin aisle, long-range widebody	210–330	December 15, 2009	8, 9, 10, BBJ

You can see some of the planes have more than one variants.Actually  they are upgraded versions. If we will see at the 737, 737 max is the latest version of that specific model.There is a huge difference in both of them. Technology is growing rapidly and that's why planes need to be upgraded for better performance. Here are some pictures of Boeing planes-

737

747-400

767

777

787 Dreamliner

-So every plane is unique in it's class. it totally depends upon the airline what they choose for them to fly. Like B737 & A320 are extremely useful when they fly regional routes because they have short range and they sit perfectly in the regional routes like INDIGO is flying their A320 from Delhi to Bhubaneswar or RYAN AIR flies their B737 from Dublin to London.

-Similarly A350,A380,B777,B787 all these planes have very long range and they have more seats rather than others . So these planes can be used for the long routes like AIR INDIA flies their B777 from New york to Delhi, CATHAY PACIFIC flies their A350 from Hong kong to Auckland, EMIRATES flies thier A380 from DUBAI to LONDON & QANTAS flies their B787 from Perth to Sidney. These are all depend upon the airlines how they use it. If they will put right planes in the right routes, they will be more profitable.

                                                Amit Parida