Making a Boeing fuselage transporter

[philo426]

How much are those fuselages worth?

[chuck]

How much are those fuselages worth?

Replacement costs or value as scrap? All of them were shredded and baled on site. The cubes were shipped to Seattle for reprocessing/reclamation. MOST of the material was aluminum with titanium as a secondary component of value. There were composites as well as tree/dirt debris mixed in. Even recycling wasn't going to be cheap.

A new fully built 737 of that type was selling for around $35 million. I can't find any data on the charge Boeing took on the loss of the train wreck. They were actually more concerned on the impact on production as the planes were being made to order and delivered as soon as made schedule. They had been completing about 1 plane a day at the time. They did decide to "store the parts" for the six aircraft affected (wings, etc) and they hoped that they could get back on schedule within a month.

Boeing financial reports are available on line back to 2017. They are about as transparent as mud as a lot of material is lumped together, e.g. commercial sales are for ALL aircraft manufactured as opposed to family of type (737, 747, 777). As each jet is basically custom ordered the price varies on what the customer wanted. I would guestimate that "value" of each fuselage scrapped was about $6 million times 6 comes out to $36 million.

[philo426]

[chuck]

OOOhh, Nice an shiny!!!!

[philo426]

Cool!

[HONDO74]

How long would that fuselage be if it was o scale ?

[healey36]

Not sure what version 737 this is, but a 737-800 is slightly less than 130 feet long, tip-to-tail, so figure the fuselage is 120 feet excluding the jutting tail surface, or roughly 30 inches in 1/48-scale.

[philo426]

Mine is 18 inches so that it will make it through the bridge on my train table.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Mine is 18 inches so that it will make it through the bridge on my train table.

Still short for even the earliest of the 737's but then it's illusion, not scale accuracy....

[philo426]

That is true but it is documented that Boring did make short 747s.

[philo426]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That is true but it is documented that Boring did make short 747s.

How short in passenger production?

[philo426]

230 passengers 45 were produced from 1976-83

[Rufus T. Firefly]

230 passengers 45 were produced from 1976-83

Okay, 747-SP looks to be the shortest? Just under 185 feet, so that's only 46",

[philo426]

Yep!