Boeing 757

The Boeing 757 is a narrow-body jet airliner built by the American manufacturer Boeing, introduced into service in 1983 as a replacement for the older Boeing 727 on medium-range domestic and transcontinental routes. Built with a single-aisle fuselage but unusually powerful engines for its size, the 757 could fly longer routes and out of shorter or higher-altitude airports than most other narrow-body airliners of its era, a combination that led some airlines to fly it on long transatlantic routes normally reserved for wide-body jets. Production ended in 2004 after more than a thousand had been built, and its distinctive capability gap between smaller narrow-bodies and true wide-bodies has never been directly replaced by a later Boeing model, a fact regularly noted by airline planners.