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767 LN 718 - Why Not Built?  
User currently offlineFlyCaledonian From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 1965 posts, RR: 3
Posted (3 years 3 months 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2832 times:

Why was 767 LN 718 not built? It's unusual for Boeing to have a gap in LNs like this.


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User currently offlineBmiBaby737 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1636 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2729 times:

It does seem very unusual; it appears it should have been a Boeing 767-38E for Asiana Airlines CN 25755

User currently offlineFlyCaledonian From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 1965 posts, RR: 3
Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2722 times:

Thanks BmiBaby737 - where did you find out who the customer should have been?

It's a shame there is no way of knowing which airlines all those gaps in Boeing msn's belong to. Some you can work out, such as that 25816 was likely an unbuilt 747-436, and that 25827/830/833 appear to be unbuilt 767-336ERs - I'm guessing options never taken up, or cancelled orders?


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User currently offlineBmiBaby737 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 1636 posts, RR: 10
Reply 3, posted (3 years 3 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2711 times:

Quoting FlyCaledonian (Reply 2):
Thanks BmiBaby737 - where did you find out who the customer should have been?


You're welcome, Planespotters and Airlinerlist

According to Airliner List, major parts had been assembled hence why the LN would not have been taken by another frame.

User currently offlineViscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21498 posts, RR: 24
Reply 4, posted (3 years 3 months 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2107 times:

It's explained in this 1999 thread.
767 Line Number 718 Solution (by Martin Baumann May 17 1999 in Civil Aviation)

User currently offlineFlyCaledonian From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 1965 posts, RR: 3
Reply 5, posted (3 years 3 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 1702 times:

I wonder if Boeing never completed the aircraft because it was a non-ER model? Could they have completed it as an ER model, or is it likely construction was so far advanced that it wasn't possible to do this?


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