Why do aircraft models or names have numbers

Maybe you asked yourself at some point, ¿becauseé the aircraft models of manufacturers have núgroupers in their names?

Boeing 717, Airbus A300, Embraer 120, Tupolev Tu-160, Dornier 328, Cessna 172 and thousands of modelsás of airplanes, but those núgroupers next to the manufacturer's mark, ¿thaté What do their names mean??

Everything in aviationón isá prepared or has a lógica, even the name of the planes or máwell the model of these. Surely the fictitious model Airbus Plus or Boeing Super will haveíthe major écommercial success that Airbus A320neo O Boeing 737 MAX, but there is a reasonón detrás.

aircraft name

From some airplanes from the First World War, the first airplanes appeared with a name and model following the lógica Manufacturer + Númodel number = Avi nameón, like the Junker J 1 or Ryan M-2 or already in World War II the Douglas DC-3.

Boeing

For instance, For the North American manufacturer, it was not always usedó the lócurrent logic of 7X7, airplanes like the Boeing existed 307 Stratoliner or the B-17 Flying Fortress was knownías a model 299.

For the specific caseífico de Boeing, afterés of WW2, I decidedó classify your airplanes by type:

• 300 a 400 h planesélice.
• 500 turbine aircraft.
• 600 for rockets and missiles.
• 700 for jet aircraft.

With this lógica, the first commercial jetó be called Boeing 700, but the marketing department recommendedó that it sounded better to put a 7 in the end, like the agents 007, for what I was bornó the boeing 707, from which I was bornó the boeing 720, but that's another story.

Así from the 707 increasing 1 in the middle Boeing models were named from the 707 until the 787.

Airbus

In the case of the main European manufacturer, on theólogic changes a little, but still the núgroupers predominate, for example it is always accompaniedña to Airbus of the letter A before the número, like the Airbus A350, almost all aircraft of this manufacturer carry the 3, ¿but whyé?

This lógica continues on all Airbus aircraft since the A300, since its planned capacity was 300 passengers, of ahí onwards jumping in series 10 the models were named, minus the A220, who joinedó from Bombardier.

Embraer

The Brazilian manufacturerñor he always had very particular names for his planes like Bandeirante, Brasilia, Xingu, Xavante and Tucano, but these were left from the Embraer 135 to enter the concept of families like the rest of the manufacturers and world trend.

The numberingón of the models as an example have the lógica of 1 (a hallway) and 90 (número mímood of passengers who can carry).

Cessna

In this case there is no greater lólogic that of 100 up to indicate aircraft más big and powerful like the Cessna 172 to 180, Being the úlast díI gito an internal engineering detail without commercial sense.

House

In this case, aircraft model planes begin with C-, followed by three núheritage:

• C-101 Aviojet «Culopollo»
• C-212 Aviocar
• C-235
• C-295

Where the first núThe first is the number of engines and the next two correspond to the numberúnumber of passengers that could safely carryúin the configurationón.

Other details

Spaghettién, some aircraft have other letters or identifiers in their names such as:

• F for cargo aircraft.
• LR para long range:
• Neo para new engine option.
• Ceo para classic engine option.
• XWB para extra wide body.

¿You know the history of the names and models of aircraft from other manufacturers?