COMMERCIAL AVIATION INDEX / 1957–2026

EVERY JETLINER.
TO SCALE.

All 91 passenger and freighter variants Airbus and Boeing have built or launched for airlines, from the 707 to the 777-9 (what counts). Each has a real photograph and a full spec sheet, with size, weight and capacity drawn to one scale.

Explore the fleet Compare sizes Runway performance Range & ETOPS
Every planform in the index on one scale, nose up.
01 / FLEET

THE
LINEUP

One card per variant, each with its own photograph and a top view drawn at one shared scale, so an A318 looks small next to an A380. Open a card for the full spec sheet, or press + to compare up to three aircraft.

02 / NUMBERS

THE FIELD,
MEASURED

Everything below follows the filters above. The ranked chart opens on published tank capacity, compared as volume rather than fuel burn or fuel aboard. Charts only compare figures on one stated basis, and each says what it leaves out.

Range against capacity

Passenger aircraft. Max seats are the certified exit limit. Bubble area is maximum take-off weight.

  • Airbus
  • Boeing
  • Area = MTOW
  • Range basis differs

Keyboard: focus the chart, then use the Left and Right arrow keys to step through aircraft and Enter to open one.

Ranked by published tank capacity

Tank volume, not fuel burn or fuel aboard.

  • Airbus
  • Boeing
03 / TIMELINE

SIX DECADES
OF RIVALRY

Each line runs from a family's entry into service to its last delivery. An arrow means it is still being built, and there is no line where the last-delivery year is not published. Dots mark each variant's first flight; hollow dots are variants still in development.

  • Airbus
  • Boeing
  • In development
04 / SPEC SHEET

EVERY
NUMBER

The table view of everything on this page. Sort by any column, and select a model name for its full sheet. Blank cells mean a figure the sources do not publish.

05 / LENGTH

EVERY AIRCRAFT.
ONE SCALE.

All 91 catalogue variants, longest first and independent of the fleet filters. Boeing and Airbus have separate tables, while every bar uses one shared zero-based scale.

BOEING

58 AIRCRAFT

AIRBUS

33 AIRCRAFT

Shared scale: 0–80 m. ICAO values are aircraft type designators from Doc 8643 ↗. ZZZZ means ICAO has not yet assigned a type-specific designator.

06 / ENGINES

ENGINE POWER.
ONE REAL SCALE.

Every physical engine geometry used across the catalogue, drawn from its published dimensions on one real scale. Variant thrust and named ICAO fuel-flow profiles keep their own source grain.

Common visual scale: 0–8 m. Fan, envelope and length bases remain labelled.

SIZE LINEUP · ONE SCALE

Every engine side by side

    Drawn to scale from published dimensions. A solid circle is a published fan diameter. A dashed outline is the certified bare-engine envelope, which includes accessories and is larger than the fan; it is not the nacelle. An engine with no published fan diameter is drawn with that outline, or with its published maximum diameter.

    Thrust and fuel keep their own grain. Takeoff thrust belongs to named authority variants. Fuel values belong to separately named ICAO EEDB profiles at standardized LTO modes; they are not cruise burn, trip fuel or comparative efficiency.

    07 / RUNWAY

    WEIGHT IN.
    RUNWAY OUT.

    Choose an aircraft to compare runway lengths at up to three weights read from the manufacturer’s chart. Its empty weight, MTOW and chart limits are shown for context, and no length is invented for a weight the chart does not cover. Markers appear only where a certification rule fixes their position.

    Planning comparison only — digitized from manufacturer charts. Values are rounded to the chart’s readable resolution and may change with source revisions. Never use this page for flight operations; use the approved AFM or operator performance tool for the exact runway, weight, configuration and conditions.

    08 / ETOPS + RANGE

    HOW FAR.
    HOW REMOTE.

    Choose a departure, destination and up to three aircraft. Each route is checked twice: first against the aircraft’s published reference range, then against an illustrative maximum-public ETOPS/EDTO diversion scenario. Rotate the globe to inspect either layer.

    Airport codes come from the self-hosted reference dataset. The speed is an adjustable assumption, not an approved aircraft value. The map uses each type’s maximum reviewed public configuration—or a labelled published floor—not an operator authorization.

      ROTATABLE EARTH VIEW · ILLUSTRATIVE

      Range and diversion globe

      Diversion limit and route of

        • Geography · dashed special-status borders are orientation only
        • Published-range ring, every aircraft
        • Beyond the chosen aircraft’s diversion limit
        • Reference airport
        • Chosen aircraft’s route
        • Diversion-coverage gap
        • Published range ends
        • Beyond published range
        • Most remote point
        • Destination, orange when the chosen aircraft fails a check

        Drag on desktop or swipe horizontally on touch. The visible arrow controls and keyboard arrows rotate the globe; Home fits the route or centers the departure. Rotation changes only the view, never the calculations.

        Scroll results horizontally →

        Two separate checks. Range is the catalogue’s published figure at its stated payload, not fuel remaining or endurance. Diversion coverage is the aircraft’s published ETOPS/EDTO time, or a labelled minimum, at the chosen speed around the reference airports. The globe shows every aircraft’s range ring, and one chosen aircraft’s diversion limit and route.

        Approximate picture, stronger route check. Natural Earth coastlines and borders are for orientation only; country labels follow the UN member and observer-state list. Background diversion shading interpolates an approximate 2° grid. Route results use airport coordinates directly, sample the great-circle path about every 10 km, and include a conservative half-sample allowance.

        Not a dispatch tool. Operator approval, actual suitable alternates, weather, winds, reserves, payload, MEL/CDL, time-limited systems, runway performance and NOTAMs are not evaluated.

        09 / COMPARE

        THE NUMBERS.
        AT A GLANCE.

        Up to three aircraft, drawn on one scale from the top, the side and the front. A 1.8 m person stands by the nose for scale. Pick a matchup below or press + on any card.

          Top view

          Aligned at the nose

          Side view

          Standing on one ground line

          Cross-section

          Typical economy layout

          10 / SOURCES

          CREDITS

          What counts. One record per passenger variant and factory-built freighter that Airbus or Boeing has built or launched for airline service under its own designation, plus the Beluga, BelugaXL and Dreamlifter. Programmes that have not flown yet, such as the 777-8, are marked in development. Sub-models that share a designation are folded into their variant, and each spec sheet lists what it covers. Left out: prototypes; military, government and business-jet versions; combi and convertible versions, except the A310-200C, which its production count does not separate; freighter conversions; the Japanese short-range 747s; and McDonnell Douglas types other than the 717.

          Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under the licences listed. They were resized and converted to WebP. Specifications come from the manufacturers' airport-planning documents and product pages, EASA and FAA type-certificate data sheets, and each type's Wikipedia specification table. Every spec sheet links its sources.

          Each record describes one configuration, the variant’s highest certified weight option, and every figure is labelled with its basis. Ranges may assume optional tanks, an unstated payload or a one- or three-class cabin; freighter ranges are at maximum payload. Typical seats are the maker’s two-class layout and maximum seats are certified exit limits. Delivery counts are the makers’ own or production lists, and each says which. Charts rank only figures that share a basis. The drawings are to scale in length, span, height and fuselage width, but otherwise simplified.

          ETOPS/EDTO entries are the highest public type capability, a labelled minimum where the maximum is unpublished, or an explicit unknown, from manufacturer, FAA, EASA and ICAO material. They are not airline or route approvals. Map land, borders and labels are Natural Earth 1:110m and the airports are a 25 September 2026 OurAirports snapshot, all public domain and served from this site.

          Type set in Manrope and DM Mono, both under the SIL Open Font License.