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Boeing Business Jets Celebrates BBJ Max Return and 25th Anniversary
With BBJ 777X waiting in the wings, demand surges for VIP bizliners
The Max makeover of the 737 features aerodynamic improvements, including advanced winglets and new CFM LEAP-1B engines, which together deliver a 13 percent reduction in fuel consumption.
The Max makeover of the 737 features aerodynamic improvements, including advanced winglets and new CFM LEAP-1B engines, which together deliver a 13 percent reduction in fuel consumption.

Boeing Business Jets (BBJ, Booth 1101) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week at NBAA-BACE and highlighting “our accomplishments over the last quarter-century,” said company president James “J.D.” Detwiler. The airframer is also marking the return of the BBJ Max, capped this year by service entry of the first BBJ Max 8, and the first BBJ Max 8 order since its now-resolved grounding.

The company launched Boeing’s business jet line in 1996, using the 737 airframe for its first family of single-aisle corporate jets before adding VIP variants of Boeing’s widebodies to its portfolio.