Boeing B737-200
The Museum's B737-200 in it's Air Philippines livery
The Boeing B737 series of single aisle, narrow body commercial aircraft had it's beginnings in 1964. The Boeing B737-100 (Fat Albert) was produced and entered airline service with Luthansa in early 1968. Further successful variants have been built numerically from the B737-100 to the last of the original series, B737-900. It has been one of Boeing's most successful jet transport aircraft built to date with 15,500+ units on order, and 10,500+ delivered to early 2020. The COVID pandemic of 2020/2022 and the grounding of the ill fated MAX caused a slowing of the production rate.
The Museum has the forward fuselage section from a B737-267, a sub series of the -200, delivered to USAir in 1982 serving until sold to Air Philpines in 2003, where it remained until being retired in 2008 and sold to Skills Victoria, a Melbourne based aviation training organisation, and was in turn operated by Kangan Batman Tafe as a hands-on technical training aid.
The aircraft was declared redundant in 2015 and was to be scrapped. The Museum acquired the forward fuselage section comprising the complete flight deck and several rows of seats. Two Pratt and Whitney JT8D engines were included in the deal. The rest of the airframe was scrapped.
TECHNICAL DATA
Crew : Captain and First Officer plus a minimum of four flight attendants.
Passenger accommodation : 136
Power plant : 2 x 14,500lbs thrust Pratt and Whitney JT8D turbojet engines.
Length : 90'06'' (28.35m) Wingspan : 97'06'' (30.53m) Height : 36'09'' (11.23m)
Weights : operating empty - 65,256lbs (29,600kg) max T/O - 115,522lbs (52,400kg)
max Landing - 102,955lbs (46,700kg)
Speeds : Max Mach Operating (MMO) Mach .82 or 350kts IAS
cruise - Mach .75 (430kts) (806km/hr)
Range : 1,740 miles (2,090km)
The Museum has the forward fuselage section from a B737-267, a sub series of the -200, delivered to USAir in 1982 serving until sold to Air Philpines in 2003, where it remained until being retired in 2008 and sold to Skills Victoria, a Melbourne based aviation training organisation, and was in turn operated by Kangan Batman Tafe as a hands-on technical training aid.
The aircraft was declared redundant in 2015 and was to be scrapped. The Museum acquired the forward fuselage section comprising the complete flight deck and several rows of seats. Two Pratt and Whitney JT8D engines were included in the deal. The rest of the airframe was scrapped.
TECHNICAL DATA
Crew : Captain and First Officer plus a minimum of four flight attendants.
Passenger accommodation : 136
Power plant : 2 x 14,500lbs thrust Pratt and Whitney JT8D turbojet engines.
Length : 90'06'' (28.35m) Wingspan : 97'06'' (30.53m) Height : 36'09'' (11.23m)
Weights : operating empty - 65,256lbs (29,600kg) max T/O - 115,522lbs (52,400kg)
max Landing - 102,955lbs (46,700kg)
Speeds : Max Mach Operating (MMO) Mach .82 or 350kts IAS
cruise - Mach .75 (430kts) (806km/hr)
Range : 1,740 miles (2,090km)