The World’s 8 Commercial Jet Producers Ranked By Number Of Aircraft Built

Estimating the number of commercial airliners a company has produced is complex and complicated. The industry is characterized by mergers and changing environments (like Airbus buying the CSeries). For example, Douglas and then McDonnell Douglas was one of the greatest aircraft makers, but it was merged with Boeing in 1997, and Boeing now includes the production of its former rival in its own.