Boeing 757-300

Type (Muster)
Single-aisle airliner (Verkehrsflugzeug)

Country (Land)
USA

Manufacturer (Hersteller)
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
PO Box 3707
Seattle, WA 98124

Phone: 001-206/237-2121
Fax: 001-206/237-1706

General (Allgemeine Angaben)
Crew (Besatzung): 2
Passengers (Passagiere): 243 passengers (with 12 in first and 231 in economy at 81 cm seat pitch) or or 258 in one-class layout or 279 passengers in charter configuration or 212 (with 22 first, 28 business and 162 economy seats)
Cargo (Fracht): 67,1 cu m lower hold cargo volume

Power plant (Antrieb): 2 x Pratt & Whitney PW2043 or Rolls-Royce RB211-535E4
Thrust (Schub): 2 x 191,7 kN (43100 lbs) for the Rolls-Royce or 2 x 195,1 kN (43850 lbs) for the Pratt

Dimensions (Abmessungen)
Length (Länge): 54,43 m
Height (Höhe): 13,56 m
Span (Spannweite): 38,05 m
Maximum fuselage diameter (Rumpfdurchmesser): 3,75 m

Cabin length (Kabinenlänge): 43,10 m

Weights (Massen)
Typical operating weight empty (Einsatz-Leermasse): 64105 kg
Max. fuel (Max. Kraftstoff): 43490 l (11490 US gal)
Max. zero-fuel weight (max. Masse ohne Kraftstoff): 95250 kg
Max. ramp weight (Max. Masse am Boden): 122920 kg
Max. take-off weigth (Max. Startmasse): 108860 kg basic or 122470 kg in high gross-weight configuration
Max. landing weight (Max. Landemasse): 101600 kg

Performance (Flugleistungen)
Cruise speed (Reisegeschwindigkeit): Mach 0.8
Approach speed (Anfluggeschwindigkeit): 263 km/h (142 KN)
Max. operating altitude (Reiseflughöhe): 11215 m (36800 ft)
Take-off field length (Startstrecke): 2740 m at sea level
Landing field length (Landestrecke): 1760 m at sea level, max. landing weight
Range (Reichweite): 6425 km (3470 NM) at 122470 kg take-off weight

Customers (Kunden)
By the time of the first flight, there were three customers for the 757-300:

Condor: 13 firm (launch customer in September 1996)
Icelandair: 2 firm plus options on a further 8 (announced June 16, 1997)
Arkia Israeli Airlines: 2 firm plus 2 options (announced 31 July 1998, for delivery in the first quarter of 2000)

International Lease Finance can change six of its 757 orders to the -300, which is also possible for Air Transport of Taiwan (five). Total 757 sales stood at 915 by 31. December 1997.

Competitors (Konkurrenz)
Airbus A310-300
Airbus A321
Boeing 767-200

Remarks (Bemerkungen)
The 757-300 is a stretched derivative of the basic 757-200. According to the manufacturer, it offers

20 per cent increse in revenue passengers
48 per cent increase in available cargo volume
lowest seat-mile cost in 250 seat market. Technically, the principal changes relative to the 757-200 are
stretched fuselage, with 4,06 m plug in front of and 3,04 m plug behind the wings
strengthened after body section and tail skid
strengthened wings, gear
systems revisions for the longer cabin, new interior and vacuum lavatories.

After verifying the market potential of a stretched 757, Boeing launched the -300 programme on September 2, 1996 with an order from Condor. Announcement was at the Farnborough Air Show. On November 15, the engineers reached a firm design configuration. Major assembly got under way in September 1997 at Renton, with the first fuselage in assembly by November. Final assembly started on March 15, 1998, and the Rolls-Royce engines are installed on May 4.
The first 757-300 rolled-out at the Renton plant on May 31, 1998. It took off on August 2 at 10.08 am, with Leon Robert and Jerry Whites at the controls. During the 2 hour 25 minute flight, they conducted a series of tests on the systems and structures before landing at Boeing Field in Seattle. "It flies like a 757-200", Robert said.
The 757-300 programme must pack more flight-test hours into a shorter amount of time than any other major Boeing airplane derivative in recent times. Around 725 hours are planned by three aircraft before type-certification, which is targeted for December, just 27 months after firm configuration. Launch customer Condor then is to receive its first aircraft in January 1999.

Last updated 28 August 1998

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