List of commercial jet airliners

Last updated March 08, 2024

The following is the list of purpose-built passenger jet airliners. It excludes turboprop and reciprocating engine powered airliners. It also excludes business jets and aircraft designed primarily for the transportation of air cargo.

Currently in production

Type	Origin	Engines^{[lower-alpha 1]}	First Flight	Airline service entry	Number Built	In Service ^[1]^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Airbus A220	Canada	2	2013	2016	287 (September 2023)^[2]	287 (September 2023)
Airbus A320	Multinational	2	1987	1988	17,757 (September 2023)^[2]	10,314 (September 2023)
Airbus A330	Multinational	2	1992	1994	1,809 (September 2023)^[2]	1,463 (September 2023)^[2]
Airbus A330neo	Multinational	2	2017	2018	123 (January 2024)^[2]	123 (January 2024)^[2]
Airbus A350 XWB	Multinational	2	2013	2014	557 (September 2023)^[2]	556 (September 2023)
Antonov An-148/An-158	Ukraine	2	2004	2009	37	8
Boeing 737	United States	2	1967	1968	11,513 (July 2023)^[3]	7,649
Boeing 767	United States	2	1981	1982	1,283 (July 2023)^[3]	764
Boeing 777	United States	2	1994	1995	1,713 (July 2023)^[3]	1,483
Boeing 787 Dreamliner	United States	2	2009	2011	1,072 (July 2023)^[3]	1,069
Comac ARJ21 Xiangfeng	China	2	2008	2015	127	122
Comac C919	China	2	2017	2023	8	4
Embraer E-Jet family	Brazil	2	2002	2004	1,671 (June 2023)^[4]	1,443
Embraer E-Jet E2 family	Brazil	2	2016	2018	81 (June 2023)^[4]	23
Ilyushin Il-96	Russia	4	1988	1992	33 (October 2023)	4
Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100	Russia	2	2008	2011	221 (February 2022)	160
Tupolev Tu-204/Tu-214	Russia	2	1989	1996	89 (May 2021)	18

Planned

Type	Origin	Engines^{[lower-alpha 3]}	First Flight	Airline service entry	End of Production	Number Built	In Service ^[1]^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Comac C929	China	2	2025–2026 (planned)	2028–2029 (planned)	to be introduced
Irkut MC-21	Russia	2	2017	2024 (planned)	to be introduced	5

Out of production

Type	Country	Engines^{[lower-alpha 5]}	First Flight	Airline service entry	End of Production	Number Built	In Service^[1]^{[lower-alpha 6]}
Airbus A300	Multinational	2	1972	1974	2007	561	216 (September 2023)^[2]
Airbus A310	Multinational	2	1982	1983	1998	255	48 (August 2023)^[2]
Airbus A318	Multinational	2	2002	2003	2013	80	57 (September 2023)
Airbus A340	Multinational	4	1991	1993	2011	377	202 (September 2023)^[2]
Airbus A380	Multinational	4	2005	2007	2021	251^[2]	232 (September 2023)^[2]
Boeing 717	United States	2	1997	1999	2006	156	145
Boeing 727	United States	3	1963	1964	1984	1,832	44
Boeing 747	United States	4	1969	1970	2022	1,574^[5]	481
Boeing 757	United States	2	1982	1983	2004	1,050	683
Bombardier CRJ100/200/440	Canada	2	1991	1992	2006	1,021	621
Bombardier CRJ700/705/900/1000	Canada	2	1999	2001	2020	924	825
British Aerospace 146/Avro RJ	UK	4	1981	1983	2001	387	204
Douglas DC-8	United States	4	1958	1959	1972	556	9
Embraer ERJ family	Brazil	2	1995	1996	2020	1,231	610
Fairchild Dornier 328JET	Germany	2	1998	1999	2002	110	18
Fokker 100	Netherlands	2	1986	1988	1997	283	109
Fokker 70	Netherlands	2	1993	1994	1997	48	35
Ilyushin Il-62	USSR/Russia	4	1963	1967	1995	292	5
McDonnell Douglas DC-9	United States	2	1965	1965	1982	976	34
McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Super 80/MD-80	United States^{[lower-alpha 7]}	2	1979	1980	1999	1,191	250
McDonnell Douglas DC-10/MD-10	United States	3	1970	1971	1988	386	27
McDonnell Douglas MD-11	United States	3	1990	1990	2000	200	120
Tupolev Tu-134	USSR	2	1963	1967	1984	854	2
Tupolev Tu-154	USSR/Russia	3	1968	1972	2013	1,026	9
Yakovlev Yak-40	USSR	3	1966	1968	1981	1,011	20
Yakovlev Yak-42	USSR/Russia	3	1975	1980	2003	185	28

Historical

Type	Country	Engines^{[lower-alpha 8]}	First Flight	Airline service entry	End of Production	Number Built	Year Retired^{[lower-alpha 9]}
McDonnell Douglas MD-90	United States	2	1993	1995	2000	116	2020
Fokker F28 Fellowship	Netherlands	2	1967	1969	1987	241	2020
VFW-Fokker 614	Germany	2	1971	1975	1978	19	2012
Vickers VC10	UK	4	1962	1964	1970	54	2013
Tupolev Tu-334	Russia	2	1999	cancelled	2009	2	cancelled
Tupolev Tu-104	USSR	2	1955	1956	1960	201	1981
Tupolev Tu-110	USSR	4	1957	cancelled	1957	4	cancelled
Tupolev Tu-124	USSR	2	1960	1962	1965	164	1991
Tupolev Tu-144	USSR	4	1968	1977	1983	16	1999
Shanghai Y-10	China	4	1980	cancelled	1980	3	cancelled
Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle	France	2	1955	1959	1973	282	2005
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar	United States	3	1970	1972	1984	250	2020 (Stargazer remains the last in service)
Ilyushin Il-86	USSR	4	1976	1980	1995	106	2011 (civilian service)
Hawker Siddeley HS121 Trident	UK	3 ^{[lower-alpha 10]}	1962	1964	1978	117	1995
Convair 880	United States	4	1959	1960	1962	65	2000
Convair 990 Coronado	United States	4	1961	1962	1963	37	1994
Dassault Mercure 100	France	2	1971	1974	1975	12	1995
de Havilland DH 106 Comet	UK	4	1949	1952	1964	112	1997
Boeing 720	United States	4	1959	1960	1967	154	2010
Avro Canada C102 Jetliner	Canada	4	1949	cancelled	1949	1	cancelled
Baade 152	East Germany	4	1958	cancelled	1961	3	cancelled
BAC One-Eleven	UK ^{[lower-alpha 11]}	2	1963	1965	1989	244	2019
Rombac 1-11	Romania ^{[lower-alpha 12]}	2	1982	1983	1993	9	2019
Boeing 707	United States	4	1957	1958	1979	865	2019 (civilian service ended with Saha crash)
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde	UK/France	4	1969	1976	1979	20	2003
Mitsubishi SpaceJet	Japan	2	2015	cancelled	2020	8	cancelled

Notes

↑ Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust
↑ As of July 2020; on-order numbers are omitted; reference and year apply unless otherwise stated
↑ Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust
↑ As of July 2020; on-order numbers are omitted; reference and year apply unless otherwise stated
↑ Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust
↑ As of July 2020; on-order numbers are omitted; reference and year apply unless otherwise stated
↑ Some MD-82 versions were also built under license in China as MD-82T Trunkliners
↑ Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust
↑ "Retired" is from all services unless otherwise noted
↑ The stretched Trident 3B variant added a fourth "boost engine" in the tail for additional takeoff thrust
↑ Also built under license in Romania
↑ Built in Romania at Romaero under license

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[1] Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust

[3] As of July 2020; on-order numbers are omitted; reference and year apply unless otherwise stated

[7] Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust

[8] As of July 2020; on-order numbers are omitted; reference and year apply unless otherwise stated

[9] Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust

[10] As of July 2020; on-order numbers are omitted; reference and year apply unless otherwise stated

[12] Some MD-82 versions were also built under license in China as MD-82T Trunkliners

[13] Thrust engines, excluding auxiliary power units or other turbines which do not provide significant aircraft thrust

[14] "Retired" is from all services unless otherwise noted

[15] The stretched Trident 3B variant added a fourth "boost engine" in the tail for additional takeoff thrust

[16] Also built under license in Romania

[17] Built in Romania at Romaero under license

[:0-2] 1 2 3 "World Airliner Census". Flightglobal. July 2020.

[abod-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Orders & deliveries". Airbus.com.

[bod-5] 1 2 3 4 "Boeing: Orders and Deliveries (updated monthly)". boeing.com. January 31, 2023. Retrieved February 20, 2023.

[2Q23-6] 1 2 "Embraer deliveries increase 47% in 2Q23 totaling 17 Commercial and 30 Executive Jets" (Press release). Embraer. 3 August 2023.

[11] Leiro, Roberto (2022-12-07). "Boeing Rolls Out Last 747 Built". Airways. Retrieved 2023-02-01.

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