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Boeing 757
	Boeing 757-200 of Northwest Airlines
Role	Narrow Body jet airliner
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Boeing Commercial Airplanes
First flight	February 19, 1982
Introduction	January 1, 1983 with Eastern Air Lines
Status	In Service
Primary users	Delta Air Lines; United Airlines; UPS Airlines
Produced	1981-2004
Number built	1050
Unit cost	757-200: US$65 million (2002) ; 757-300: US$80 million (2002)
Variants	Boeing C-32

A Thomas Cook Boeing 757-300 at Manchester Airport.

The Boeing 757 is a short to medium range narrow-body commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was launched by Eastern Air Lines and British Airways to replace the Boeing 727 and entered service in 1983. Production of the 757 ended on October 28, 2004 after 1,050 had been built.^[1] The final aircraft was delivered to Shanghai Airlines on November 28, 2005. As of July 2007, a total of 1,019 Boeing 757 aircraft were in airline service.^[2]

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[last757built-1] "Boeing Marks Completion of its 757 Commercial Airplane Program"

[757.org.uk-2] Boeing 757 Reference Site, 12 July 2007

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