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The Boeing 757 is a medium-range transcontinental commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It was designed for Eastern Airlines and British Airways to replace the Boeing 727 and entered service in 1983. Production of the 757 ended in October 2004 after 1,050 had been built.

The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States Air Force have fitted 757s for VIP transport duties (see C-32), and at least one is in use as a private aircraft (that of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen). Presidential challenger John Kerry used a chartered 757-200, nicknamed "Freedom Bird," during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign. The Royal New Zealand Air Force RNZAF has two that are used for transporting troops and VIPs. A 757 is also serving as the Presidential Transport in Argentina.

Cam adds: let me just say that the 757 is pretty much the most boring airplane ever, at least according to wikipedia. I hope that ten posts from now I have something more fun to copy and paste. :)


* Due to some back-posting of Toronto Pride misadventures from the late 90s, this is actually post 758. Oops!