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737 as business jet !!!
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In the wall street journal (yesterday or day before), there was an interesting article about Boing wanting produce a 737 for long range business travel to compete against Canadair’s Global Business Express. It said that Boeing would take an "off the shelf" 737 (not sure which model) and outfit it with enough tanks to give it a (approx) 7000 mile range and let the owner decide on the interior. Sounds like a very comfy business jet to me !!!!! I think I read that Boeing expected a market of about 100 such jets. I think it would be a pretty big piece of hardware and maintenance for a corporation to own. You can’t park that puppy in just any hangar 
However, I think that Boeing might make government sales (eg: planes used by the country’s leader(s) ).
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This is not the first time a company used an airliner as a biz-jet. Working at LGA I can tell you that Donald Trump uses a 727-100 as a biz- jet. In addition so does Phillips, NV use a 727-100 as a biz jet. Not unusual for those who can afford it.
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>However, I think that Boeing might make government sales (eg: planes >used by the country’s leader(s) ).
Boeing has already been doing this with a number of its planes. For instance, they sold a number of planes to Turkmenistan, one of which was a 757 for exclusive use of the country’s president, Saparmurad Niyazov.
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>In the wall street journal (yesterday or day before), there was an >interesting article about Boing wanting produce a 737 for long range >business travel to compete against Canadair’s Global Business Express. >It said that Boeing would take an "off the shelf" 737 (not sure which >model) and outfit it with enough tanks to give it a (approx) 7000 mile >range and let the owner decide on the interior. >Sounds like a very comfy business jet to me !!!!! >I think I read that Boeing expected a market of about 100 such jets. >I think it would be a pretty big piece of hardware and maintenance for a >corporation to own. You can’t park that puppy in just any hangar >However, I think that Boeing might make government sales (eg: planes >used by the country’s leader(s) ).
There are already a number of executive B737, B747, B757, B767, A310, A340 and most of them seem to be owned by the Sultan of Brunuei. brgds Brian
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> In the wall street journal (yesterday or day before), there was an > interesting article about Boing wanting produce a 737 for long range > business travel to compete against Canadair’s Global Business Express…. > I think it would be a pretty big piece of hardware and maintenance for a > corporation to own. You can’t park that puppy in just any hangar
Paul Allen, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder who owns among other things the Portland Trailblazers, has his own 757 along with (I’ve been told by someone who’s seen it) an F-15 and a bunch of other planes. C. Marin Faure author, Flying a Floatplane
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> Paul Allen, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder who owns among other > things the Portland Trailblazers, has his own 757 along with (I’ve been > told by someone who’s seen it) an F-15 and a bunch of other planes. > C. Marin Faure > author, Flying a Floatplane
For for the likes of Paul Allen and Bill Gates, a mere 737 is just a toy he would probably give his children at christmas. The 757 is probably the low end car for short hops. I would expect Bill Gates to own a Concorde if that plane were still in production. Who knows, maybe he will commission Boeing to build him a supersonic long range plane… and give it to his wife as a christmas gift. Yeah, I guess there might be a market for such large jets for personal use by the ultra rich individuals.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > In the wall street journal (yesterday or day before), there was an > interesting article about Boing wanting produce a 737 for long range > business travel to compete against Canadair’s Global Business Express. > It said that Boeing would take an "off the shelf" 737 (not sure which > model) and outfit it with enough tanks to give it a (approx) 7000 mile > range and let the owner decide on the interior. > Sounds like a very comfy business jet to me !!!!! > I think I read that Boeing expected a market of about 100 such jets. > I think it would be a pretty big piece of hardware and maintenance for a > corporation to own. You can’t park that puppy in just any hangar > However, I think that Boeing might make government sales (eg: planes > used by the country’s leader(s) ).This is true…I saw it Thursday in an announcement by General Electric.
GE has ordered a couple to be based on the new 737-700 powered by CFM56 engines.
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I wonder how much of this is influenced by the demise of Fokker. I noted that a few Fokker 70’s were sold as government VIP transports (eg: republic of Kenya) and Boeing has decided to grab this market before someone else (ie: AI) decides it might be a good idea. I think a Corporate 737 would kick butt actually. Although a 7000 nm range? What’s this? a 737-900ER? -richard — Richard A. Muirden, CNA, RMIT ITS Core Unix Systems Admin: Web+News+Post -Master likes: Boeing ‘planes, United Airlines, Chocolate anything, Vodka drinks, Sci-fi 127 Shostakovich CD’s to date. http://www.rmit.edu.au/richard
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> For for the likes of Paul Allen and Bill Gates, a mere 737 is just a toy he > would probably give his children at christmas. The 757 is probably the low end > car for short hops. I would expect Bill Gates to own a Concorde if that plane > were still in production. Who knows, maybe he will commission Boeing to build > him a supersonic long range plane… and give it to his wife as a christmas > gift. > Yeah, I guess there might be a market for such large jets for personal use by > the ultra rich individuals.
I don’t believe Bill Gates owns a plane, and I know he has absolutely no interest in flying or airplanes at all. (Cars are another story, however.) When he travels to the family vacation home on Hood Canal, he charters a floatplane from one of the local seaplane services and spends the whole flight reading a newspaper. The market for the 737 business jet is primarily corporations whose managers spend a lot of time on international flights. Instead of just sitting there reading or watching a movie, these people feel it would be far more productive to conduct meetings or perform the same kind of work they do in their offices at home. Current interior plans show a standardized galley and crew rest area forward with a private room and bathroom aft of that. The aft portion of the plane would be able to be converted quickly to a number of configurations, including a conference room, full-size office, several rows of sleeper-seats, standard airline seating, or a combination of these elements. The advances in communications and antenna technology will give the plane all sorts of communications capabilities, including FAX, phone, and on-line computer connections. The 737 business jet is envisioned more as a mobile corporate office and communications center than an airborne limo for the very wealthy, although I’m sure some will be used in that manner. If time were of the essence, the plane could continue to function as an office or conference facility while it is on the ground, eliminating the need to set up shop in a hotel. The cost of the 737 business jet, by the way, will be competitive with the other big bizjets on the market today like the Gulfstream. The plane will combine the 737-700 fuselage with the 737-800 wing and landing gear, and will have a range of over 6,000 miles. C. Marin Faure author, Flying a Floatplane
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The Sultan of Brunei owns 1 A340, 1 77-44(Buisness version of the 747-400 i think) and god knows how many learjets! 77-32,-33 & -34 are often seen in the gulf and europe. Peter "All alone In the lonely land"
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Sure, 737s have been used for years as top-end executive jets. I work for a large repair station; we had a 737-200 through last year that was all white, no markings anywhere except for the registration, N1PC. Didn’t get a chance to check out the interior; heard it was incredible. (Lots more room than a Lear!) Just about all airliners have been used as business jets. The 727 is probably the most popular (Dee Howard down in San Antonio has done a LOT of work on them), but even some 747s are used in this role by certain members of various Arabian royal families. Several old 707s are still in service as corporate aircraft. A 7000-mile range for a 737? You’d probably fill most of both cargo pits with aux tanks . . . not much of a problem if you’re only carrying 15-20 people and baggage. Some USAF T-43s (military 737s) were delivered with aux tanks in the aft pit, and putting aux tanks in the forward pit shouldn’t be much of a problem.
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> > For for the likes of Paul Allen and Bill Gates, a mere 737 is just a toy he > would probably give his children at christmas. The 757 is probably the > low end > car for short hops. I would expect Bill Gates to own a Concorde if that plane > were still in production. Who knows, maybe he will commission Boeing
I believe the last magazine article I saw said Bill travels in coach.
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>The Sultan of Brunei owns 1 A340, 1 77-44(Buisness version of the >747-400 i think) and god knows how many learjets! > 77-32,-33 & -34 are often seen in the gulf and europe.
I believe he just bought (and is the launch customer of) the latest version of the A-340. Pete.
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just hang around the SDL airport and you’ll see plenty of bizjets. SDL is home to Corporate jets, a place that sells/services these things as well as gives flight training. I work near the SDL airport and get to see various jets take off and land every day. SDL is about 15 miles NW of PHX (Phoenix, AZ) — ——-
: The Sultan of Brunei owns 1 A340, 1 77-44(Buisness version of the : 747-400 i think) and god knows how many learjets! : 77-32,-33 & -34 are often seen in the gulf and europe. : Peter : "All alone In the lonely land"