Template talk:Boeing model numbers

Boeing Aircraft verses Boeing Airplane

Greetings, I think this template is better titled "Boeing Airplane" models instead of Boeing Aircraft. An example being the Boeing Model 234. One is a twin rotor, heavy lift helicopter. The other a 1930's fighter. Thoughts? --Trashbag (talk) 20:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Model Numbers are useless

...as evidenced by the fact that they point to articles with different names. --91.10.17.142 (talk) 23:01, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We include the model numbers for cross-referncing. That's not useless. - BilCat (talk) 23:36, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Boeing Customer Codes

Added Boeing Customer Codes as this was not well referenced on article pages and they are directly related to model numbers. e.g. a British Airways 747-400 is specified as a 747-436... Southwest 737-700 is 737-7H4, and so on. The last 2 digits/letters specify the Boeing customer that originally ordered the airplane (as the article notes).

The list of customer codes is, IMHO, very important and needs to be better linked on pages that refer to specific Boeing models.

Cheers!

Moogle10000 02:45, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Are most of the missing model numbers even real?

It seems that the only online source I could find about the missing ones is this thread on the Secret Projects Forum, and even there most of the redlinks are marked with question marks. Could somebody who has expertise in this topic confirm whether they actually exist (e.g. listed in sources such as Peter M. Bowers' Boeing aircraft since 1916, Paul Eden, Soph Moeng, and editors' The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, Lloyd S. Jones' U.S. Naval Fighters, etc.) or not? SquaredHexahedron (talk) 11:45, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, I have no doubt in my mind that these are real, but whether there is adequate public information about some of them is probably a different story. I recently checked out the Bowers book from my university's library for a project over at Commons. It mostly deals with built aircraft, but it does have a section in the back that briefly covers a lot of unbuilt designs. I'll see what I can do. - ZLEA _T\^C 03:58, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not many are supported by the Bowers book, but I marked the ones that are with invisible comments. I could have sworn there was a book that covered most, if not all of these, but I don't remember which one it might have been. - ZLEA _T\^C 04:08, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]