Boeing

Boeing Business Jets exists because two chief executives agreed in 1996 that a 737 could be sold privately, with an airliner's support behind it.

Two chief executives started this. In 1996 Phil Condit of Boeing and Jack Welch of General Electric agreed that a market existed for a 737 sold privately, carrying the reliability and the support network of an airliner. Boeing Business Jets came out of that agreement. The first aircraft, based on the 737-700, flew in September 1998 and was delivered a month later to General Electric. The current generation, the BBJ 737 MAX, was launched in 2014. The division has stayed a narrow line inside a company whose main business is building airliners.

A single Boeing flies in this fleet, and most of what a reader wants to know about it belongs on the aircraft's own page. That is deliberate. The Knowledge Layer holds fewer measurements for this aeroplane than for almost anything else here, passenger capacity among the ones it does not hold, so this page will not estimate them. What the badge itself means is plain enough: a commercial airframe, built alongside the airliners, finished privately afterwards, and supported through the network that exists for the type in scheduled service. That network is the argument, and it is the part no specification sheet shows.