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Low wing wide body airliner with twin turbofans. Includes passenger (no longer in production) freighter and tanker versions.

Aluminium airframe with aluminium alloy wing skins and keel beam chords; graphite primary flight controls (ailerons, spoilers, elevators, rudder and floor panels); composite wing surfaces and engine cowlings; CFRP landing gear doors and aramid engine pylon fairings and flaps.

Choice of three high bypass engines from GE, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney, pylon-mounted in pods under the wing. Control surfaces, landing gear and actuation systems are operated by three redundant hydraulic systems, two powered by a single engine each and the third by an electric pump. Fly-by-wire system operates the spoilers.

Two (three in KC-46A) crew in glass cockpit face three LCD screens displaying two windows each of EFIS and EICAS data.

Type variants

Variant	Launch/First flight	Production end
Boeing 767-200	1978 / 1981	2013	Production: 23 (2019) Deliveries. Initial variant, including 767-200ER and KC-767 tanker based on 767-200ER for Italy and Japan.
Boeing 767-300	1983 / 1986		Production: 20 (2019) Deliveries. Stretched variant, including 767-300ER latterly. Currently only produced as the 767-300F Freighter, 767 passenger aircraft production ceased in 2014.
Boeing 767-400ER	1997 / 1999	2013	Stretched variant, with flightdeck based on 777.
Boeing KC-46A Pegasus	2008 / 2015		Airborne refuelling tanker for the USAF.

Recent news

• 02/04/2026:  Press Release:  Innovative Aerosystems acquires license for Honeywell power generator systems, further expanding electrical power and sustainment capabilities
• 01/04/2026:  Press Release:  Solestra Group adds flight safety, fracture-critical manufacturing capabilities with acquisition of Aerofab Corporation
• 11/12/2025:  NEWS:  Boeing and Airbus absorb Spirit operations
• 24/10/2025:  Press Release:  Stavatti submits SM-940K Tanker in response to USAF NGAS RFI

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Operations data

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