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BBJ Fleet Grows Rapidly Worldwide; Set to
Double in Next Couple of Years
For Boeing Business Jets, the magic number now stands at 83.
That's how many BBJs the company has sold, up from 71 last year.
And the first four BBJs in the Executive Jet NetJets fractional
ownership program have entered service. Three additional airplanes
will follow by year-end.
On the BBJ2 front, Boeing delivered four green BBJ2s in 2001,
and signed up its first European customer-Multiflight Ltd., an
England-based charter company.
Multiflight will use the BBJ2 as a long-range, luxury charter
airplane with two lounges, a dining area, an exercise area, two
bathrooms with showers, a master bedroom with private office,
and a large galley.
One of the lounges will convert into a wide screen theater with
surround sound. Each of the 19 seats will have phone, fax and
Internet connections.
The BBJ2, which is scheduled for completion by Lufthansa Technik
around the time of the next NBAA show, will be based at Leeds/Bradford
Inter- national Airport where the company has a sales and maintenance
base and also offers flight training on helicopters and fixed
wing aircraft.
The BBJ organization will not have a booth at the December show
in New Orleans, but is bringing the Boeing corporate BBJ for static
display.
At the Dubai air show in November, Boeing displayed a corporate
BBJ plus a second airplane from a customer.
Through third-quarter 2001, cumulative green deliveries for the
BBJ stood at 64. A total of 40 completed airplanes were in service
through the same time period.
Other pertinent details:
- 8 green deliveries in 1998;
- 29 green deliveries in 1999;
- 14 green deliveries in 2000;
- 5 green deliveries in first quarter 2001 (U.S. registry 1, international
4);
- 3 green deliveries in second quarter 2001 (U.S. registry 1,
international 2);
- 5 green deliveries in third quarter 2001 (U.S. registry 2, international
3).
- Fleet hours stand at 19,800, and fleet cycles at 8,900.
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