Boeing 767-200 Model Airplane

Item#: 80815

Wing Span: 17.06
Length: 17.36

Manufacturer: The Boeing Company

This Boeing 767-200 Airplane Model comes with a detachable stand a Personalized inscription plaque and a laminated Boeing logo that adds beauty to this collectible masterpiece.

Boeing 767-200 History:

The Boeing 767 is a medium-range twinjet and the narrowest widebody airliner in service. The airlines fly the Boeing 767 on medium-range flights with 200 to 300 seats on board.

Boeing launched the 767 in 1978 after a thirty-aircraft order from United Airlines and developed the new jetliner during the same period as the narrowbody 757. Both aircraft types have many design features in common, like the two-crew digital flightdeck allowing a common pilot type-rating, and many systems.

The Boeing 767 was first flown on 26 September 1981 and the first production aircraft was delivered to United Airlines in August 1982. United commenced commercial service with the type on 8 September 1982 on its Chicago to Denver service.

The 767 was the main competitor of the Airbus A310. The main difference between the two airliners is the fuselage diameter. The 767 allows seven-abreast seating in the economy class (2-3-2) compared to the eight-abreast interior of the A310. The height of the cargo hold is the same for both aircraft, but because of the smaller diameter the 767-fuselage is not wide enough to accommodate LD3 containers pairwise in two rows. LD3-containers are interchangeable with the A300, DC-10, TriStar and 747. For the 767 Boeing designed the non-standard LD67 container, which has the same height and width as the LD3 but is shorter and offers less volume.

Extended range versions (ER) of the 767 have become very popular on long-haul services with limited passenger markets for which aircraft like the 747 and the DC-10 are too big. In 1994 the 767 became the most widely used airliner across the Atlantic with more transatlantic crossings than any other airplane type.

The Boeing 767-200 is the first and standard version. Boeing considered to build a shorter 767-100, but decided that this would come too close in capacity compared to the 757. The 767-200 seats 200-255 passengers, but a maximum of 275 seats is possible for charter airlines when extra overwing exits are installed. A subversion is the 767-200ER (Extended Range), which was first delivered to El Al in March 1984. Boeing stopped the production of the 767-200/-200ER airliners in 1994 but restarted building the 767-200ER in 1998 after an order from Continental Airlines for ten aircraft. A total of 249 767-200 and 767-200ER aircraft has been built.