{"id":234752,"date":"2025-06-13T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/last-commercial-plane-rear-mounted-engines\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:00:16","slug":"the-last-commercial-plane-in-america-with-rear-mounted-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=234752","title":{"rendered":"The Last Commercial Plane In America With Rear-Mounted Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was the last commercial US passenger jet to have rear-mounted engines? That question limits the answer to just commercial aircraft and not business jets. Unlike commercial aircraft, modern business jets are often manufactured with rear-mounted engines. The final American passenger jet with that configuration was the Boeing 717. This was a continuation of the Douglas (later McDonnell Douglas) <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256242\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/dc-9\/\"  >DC-9<\/a><\/span> family of passenger jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 717 is the last US-made rear-engined commercial jet, although this could change if the JetZero Z4 goes into production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,603,13886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-717","category-jetzero"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234753,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234752\/revisions\/234753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}