Boeing Delivered 49 Aircraft in October as 737 MAX Output Slipped
Boeing delivered 49 aircraft in October 2026, down from 57 in September, as 737 MAX handovers fell to 32. Year-to-date totals, orders and 787 deliveries.
Boeing delivered 49 commercial aircraft in October 2026, down from 57 in September, as handovers of its best-selling 737 MAX fell to 32, according to figures confirmed on 11 November and reported by AeroTime. The slowdown interrupts several months of recovery in Boeing deliveries, which had peaked at 64 aircraft in June.
The October numbers
- Total deliveries: 49 (September: 57; August: 51; July: 53; June: 64)
- 737 MAX: 32, down from 43 in September and 41 in August
- 787 Dreamliner: 11, a rise that AeroTime attributes to Boeing clearing previously built aircraft rather than faster production
- Customers included: flydubai, Air New Zealand, Akasa Air and United Airlines
Year to date
With two months left in the year, Boeing has delivered 524 aircraft in 2026, compared with 493 at the same point in 2025, when the full-year total reached 600. Orders stand at 826 for the year, 10 fewer than at this point last year. October brought 165 orders, led by a 140-aircraft deal from the lessor Avolon, plus six 737 MAX jets for Allegiant Air and 19 aircraft for two undisclosed customers.
Production still not stable
In September, chief executive Kelly Ortberg said 737 production was “now driving at 47 a month” but was not yet stable, and that the step up from 42 to 47 aircraft a month had taken longer than he expected. He pointed to constraints in 737 wing production, where Boeing had not seen the expected improvement in the flow of parts.
Why it matters
Monthly deliveries are how airlines receive the aircraft they are waiting for and how Boeing gets paid. The 737 MAX is the core of its business, and a stable, rising production rate is central to its financial recovery after years of disruption, from the 2019 grounding to the quality-control problems that followed. A weaker October does not change the yearly trend, which remains ahead of 2025, but it shows that the supply chain is still the limiting factor. See the specifications of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 in our aircraft database.
Sources
- AeroTime: Boeing slide in 737 MAX deliveries hampers recent progress, 12 November 2026
- Boeing, orders and deliveries update, 11 November 2026
