Chances are, if you’ve flown with Delta Air Lines on an international flight, you traveled in one of our Boeing 767s. Delta is the only airline that has operated all sub-types of the Boeing 767: the -200 (retired from the Delta fleet in 2006), the -300/300ER, and the -400ER.
Here are some interesting facts about Boeing 767s:
- The Boeing 767 is the first widebody jet airliner to be stretched twice. The 767-300 is 21 feet longer than the original 767-200; the newer 767-400ER is 21 feet longer than the 767-300.
- The first Boeing 767, a series 200, entered airline service in September 8, 1982. Since then, Boeing 767s have flown more than 7.5 million flights, and carried more than two billion passengers!
- The air flowing through a Boeing 767-400ER engine at takeoff power could inflate a blimp in seven seconds!
- It takes approximately 60 gallons of fuel per passenger to get from New York to London on board a 767-400ER. The same volume of gasoline would propel an economy car about half of that distance!
- The Boeing 767 flies across the Atlantic more frequently than all other jetliners combined.
- The 767-400ER flight deck instrument panel has 82 percent fewer parts than other 767s. By using cast parts, the part count was reduced to 53 from 296. Production hours plummeted to 20 hours from 180 hours!
- If General Electric’s CF6-80C2B8F turbofan engines were attached to your automobile, at takeoff power it would accelerate from zero to 60 mph in less than half a second!
- There are 3.1 million parts in a Boeing 767 provided by more than 800 suppliers.
- The 767-300ER and 767-400ER each hold 23,980 gallons of fuel – enough to fill approximately 1,200 minivans.
- The noise level of a Boeing 767 taking off from a 1.5 mile long runway is about the same as the average street corner’s traffic noise.
- There are approximately 90 miles of electrical wiring in a Boeing 767-200ER, 117 miles in a 767-300ER and 125 miles in a 767-400ER!
- The Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum, located at Delta’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA, is home to the world’s only preserved Boeing 767, The Spirit of Delta.
Clear skies,
Christopher Weyer
Flight Simulator Technician
Atlanta, GA
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
The facts are always cool to read and I can always learn from them. The B-767 is indeed a workhorse at Delta. Oh goodness, do I remember the 1st time stepping aboard DL’s 767. A wide body airplane is special and offers the gift of spaciousness that makes me smile from ear to ear. Uh hmm, next to the beloved TriStar, of course.
October 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Great tidbits of info!
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
The setup of the 767-400ER’s flight deck is identical to that of the Boeing 777, allowing for pilot cross-certification with less training necessary and more flying time available!
The flight deck of the -300/300ER series is identical to its sister aircraft, the Boeing 757. This also allows for cross-certification.
The 2-3-2 seating layout of the 767 is a favorite among all passengers worldwide, never leaving more than one seat between you and the aisle.
Delta was the launch customer for the -400ER. The first 767-432ER, N825MH, was built in 2000. Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines are the only airlines in the world that operate this variant of the 767.
The -400ER totally leaves the A330 in the dust =D
I love the fact about the flight to London. How much do one of these things cost?
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I like the info! Thanks! I’ve only been on one 767 and I believe it was a Delta 767-200 or maybe -300. It definately is a nice bird and it’s pretty nice and spacious inside. Which leads me to one question… how will the addition of A330’s influence Delta’s 767’s? The A330 is very similar as far as size and capacity goes. Hopefully you guys will enjoy the A330 as much as Northwest does.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Jayo Z: The 767-400ER flight deck is certainly not identical to that of the 777. There are many subtle similarities (i.e. LCD displays), but certainly not identical.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Ohhh… I thought it was. Okay maybe not. But isn’t there some kind of cross-type rating going on there (maybe the layout of the screens or something)? I heard about that a number of times… if I can find it I’ll let y’all know (:
Still a great plane!
October 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I never flown on one for an International flight. But it did tease me once in Berlin. I saw it sitting at the gate a direct flight to JFK I so wanted to be on it. But I was on Air Berlin with a connecting flight
October 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Only times I’ve ever gone int’l with Delta were to Aruba, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Panama, and Mexico, and one of those was on Chatauqua; the rest were on standard 757 (the same one twice even – JFK-ACA and ATL-SJO were both on ship 678) (which is perfectly fine; the Shanghai jet (N900PC) is pretty cool with the Chinese writing!). I had the pleasure of taking a DL 767 back in 1997 when I was 6 years old (and I only know it was a 767 because of the 2-3-2; I wanted to take a nap but the F/A said we were going to land) from CVG-MCO. CO’s 764s are nice (they’re HUGE!).
October 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
On the subject of aircraft, I have a question; maybe someone here can answer this, as it’s been bugging me for years: what aircraft operated MCO-ATL in 1997? The seat layout was either 2-4-2 or 2-5-2. We were stuck in a thunderstorm in Orlando and missed our connection in Atlanta to LGA, and stayed overnight (caught a Mad Dog the next morning).
October 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Jayo Z…it was either an L-1011 or MD11.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
[...] computer renderings of Delta’s new full-flat seat we’ll be installing on the first of seven 767-400ERs this winter. It’s a really innovative design in that it’s 20% wider than the current seat, [...]
November 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I was just looking at some photos on airliners.net, and noticed that the cockpit of the -400ER is different than that of the -200/-300/ER (and 757) aircraft. The location of the displays is nearly identical to the 777’s cockpit. The only major difference is in the autopilot switches.