Aircraft
Boeing Starts Production of 737 Max 7
Schedules call for first delivery in 2019
The Boeing 737 Max 7 wing spar stretches 65 feet in length. (Photo: Boeing)
The Boeing 737 Max 7 wing spar stretches 65 feet in length. (Photo: Boeing)

Boeing’s manufacturing team in Renton, Washington, has begun work on the first 65-foot wing spar for the 737 Max 7, marking the start of production of the latest Max variant in the five-member family. Scheduled for delivery in 2019, the Max 7 seats as many as 172 passengers and flies to a range of beyond 3,800 nautical miles. In a standard two-class configuration the airplane seats 152.