{"id":292182,"date":"2025-09-27T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeings-1st-commercial-airliner-quadjet\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T08:01:16","slug":"why-in-the-world-was-boeings-1st-commercial-aircraft-a-narrowbody-quadjet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=292182","title":{"rendered":"Why In The World Was Boeing\u2019s 1st Commercial Aircraft A Narrowbody Quadjet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing is one of the largest commercial aircraft manufacturers in the world. Currently, the commercial aviation business segment employs nearly 50,000 employees around the world. This includes those located at its major manufacturing facilities in Everett, Washington, and Charleston, South Carolina. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> was first founded over 100 years ago, in July 1916. Since then, the company has grown to be one of the largest aerospace companies in the world, recording nearly $33 billion in revenue in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 707 is considered to be the first narrowbody jetliner developed by Boeing.<\/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":[396,398,868,1776,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-707","category-quadjets","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292182","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=292182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292183,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292182\/revisions\/292183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}