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Wide-bodied, twin-jet, commercial aircraft. Aluminium and titanium alloy airframe with cabin floor, torsion boxes, flight control surfaces and rudders made from composite materials. Powered by two high thrust GE90 family of turbofan engines.

Supercritical airfoil design wings without winglets which also serve as fuel storage. Wide cyclindrical fuselage accommodates twin-aisle, up to 10-abreast seating, tapering to blade shaped tail-cone. Features largest ever landing gear and tyres on a commercial aircraft with 6 wheels on each main landing gear. 777X features foldable wingtips and composites wing. The 777 was the first Boeing airliner to feature fully digital fly-by-wire controls. Two hydraulic actuators control each surface of the elevators, ailerons, and flaperons and three control the rudder.

Two pilots face a Honeywell airplane information management system (AIMS), six-screen flat panel display system, yoke and rudder controls. Two hydraulic actuators control each surface of the elevators, ailerons and flaperons, and three control the rudder.

Type variants

Variant	Launch/First flight	Production end
Boeing 777-200	1990 / 1994		Initial production variant (no longer marketed), now produced as 777-200LR. Also produced as freighter variant 777F.
Boeing 777-300	1995 / 1997		Stretched variant, currently produced as 777-300ER.
Boeing 777F	2005 / 2008		Freighter variant, based on 777-200LR.
Boeing 777-8X	2013 /		Typical capacity 350 passengers. Includes the twin-engine freighter variant, 777-8F.
Boeing 777-9X	2013 / 2020		First available 777X variant. Further extended with typical capacity of 414 passengers.

Recent news

• 13/12/2023:  Press Release:  GE Aerospace celebrates 10th anniversary of the EPISCenter
• 12/12/2023:  Press Release:  GE Aerospace and partners achieve new milestone, testing 10 different aircraft engine models with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel
• 14/11/2023:  Press Release:  ARTEX ELT 5000 Distress Tracking ELT becomes first GADSS solution to complete safety of flight testing
• 29/09/2023:  Press Release:  International Aerospace Coatings (IAC) awarded contract to operate Boeing widebody paint facilites in Portland, Oregon, expanding a long-standing business relationship
• 20/06/2023:  Press Release:  Honeywell, Curtiss-Wright receive certification for 25-hour cockpit voice and flight data recorders

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Operations data

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