Launch customers

ARIUS · 02-09-2003, 06:53 PM

Does anyone know or know where I should look for which airlines were the launch customers for the following aircraft?

Boeing:
707
717
720
727-100
727-200
737-100
737-200
747-100
747-200
747-300
747-400
757-200
757-300
767-200
767-300
777-200
777-300

Douglas:
DC-8
DC-9-10
DC-9-30
DC-10-10
DC-10-30
MD-11

Clip · 02-09-2003, 08:09 PM

The Boeing Web site.

jetabout · 02-10-2003, 05:28 AM

www.airliners.net

BHopper88 · 02-10-2003, 10:05 AM

if im not mistaken but wasnt
AIRTRAN the launch customer for the 717
NWA the launch customer for the 747-400
BA,UNITED the launch customers for the 777-200

not sure on the others thou

Nobbe · 02-10-2003, 10:55 AM

Lufthansa:
- 737-100
- 737-200 (?)

Condor:
- 757-300

Travelin' Man · 02-10-2003, 05:18 PM

747-400 Northwest
777-200 United Airlines
757-200 Dleta or Eastern
747-100 Pan Am
767-200 United Airlines

richie154 · 02-10-2003, 05:53 PM

DC-10-10 launch customer is AA right?

Colorado Flyer · 02-11-2003, 03:03 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by richie154
DC-10-10 launch customer is AA right?

Actually, AA is considered the co-launch customer of the DC-10 along with United. American was the first to order the DC-10 (25 firm plus 25 options), but the Douglas Board of Directors would not authorize the program until United placed an order (30 plus 30 options) a few weeks later.

Both AA and UA DC-10's were involved in the flight testing program, and both took their first deliveries on the same day during the same ceremony. (Coincidentally, both AA and UA took their initial DC-6 deliveries during the same ceremony many years before). At the conclusion of the delivery ceremony, the AA DC-10 took off first. AA inaugurated service on the ORD-LAX run a week or two before UA started SFO-IAD service.

Conclusion: AA was indeed first, but if UA had chosen the L-1011 instead (which they were close to doing), there would never have been a DC-10. It was United's order that actually launched the DC-10 program.

9V-SVC · 02-11-2003, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BHopper88
if im not mistaken but wasnt
AIRTRAN the launch customer for the 717
NWA the launch customer for the 747-400
BA,UNITED the launch customers for the 777-200

not sure on the others thou

United is the launch customer for 777-200 not BA .

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BHopper88 Master Collector Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Home: Beverly Hills, Michigan (burb of Detroit), School: Grand Forks, North Dakota Age: 30 Posts: 547	if im not mistaken but wasnt AIRTRAN the launch customer for the 717 NWA the launch customer for the 747-400 BA,UNITED the launch customers for the 777-200 not sure on the others thou

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Nobbe Insane Collector Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,050	Lufthansa: - 737-100 - 737-200 (?) Condor: - 757-300

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Travelin' Man Insane Collector Join Date: May 2000 Location: Aspen USA!!! Posts: 1,919	747-400 Northwest 777-200 United Airlines 757-200 Dleta or Eastern 747-100 Pan Am 767-200 United Airlines