Boeing
Boeing 757
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Field marks
- Long, slender, "stretched" fuselage on a comparatively narrow, short wing — looks pulled taut compared to any A320-family jet
- Distinctly tall landing gear stance keeps the underslung engines off the ground on this narrow-body
- A four-wheel bogie on each main gear leg — no other narrowbody in this fleet has more than two
- Pointed, needle-like nose profile, sharper than the A320 family
Specs
- Length
- 47.32 m
- Wingspan
- 38.05 m
- Engines
- Rolls-Royce RB211 / Pratt & Whitney PW2000
- Typical seats
- 178–214
Variant notes
- The 757-200 dominates the surviving fleet; the stretched 757-300 (54.4 m) is rare, mostly with Delta and United
- Roughly evenly split between blended winglet retrofits (FAA-approved since 2005) and unmodified plain tips
- No split scimitar was ever certified or offered for the 757 — blended winglets remain the only retrofit option
Commonly confused with
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Airbus A321neo
Airbus
Sharklets plus a visibly stretched fuselage separate it from an A320neo
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Airbus A321ceo
Airbus
Four overwing exits (two pairs) instead of the A320's two are the length tell up close
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Boeing 767
Boeing
The narrowest true widebody flying — noticeably fatter cross-section than a 757 but visibly slimmer than an A330 or 777