The following is a list of trijet aircraft.

Aircraft Development Production Operation Start Cancelled Start End Number built Introduced RetiredAerion AS2 2014 2021 0 Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar 1953 1961 1958 1961 2 1958 1961 Boeing 727 1957 1962 1984 1,832 1963 Boeing X-48 2000 2005 2005 2 2007 Boom XB-1 2016 2024 1 Bristol Type 200 1956 1958 0Chengdu J-36 2025 1?Convair Model 200 1973 1973 0 Convair XB-53 1945 1949 0 Dassault Falcon 50 1974 1976 2008 352 1976 Dassault Falcon 7X 2001 2005 289 2007 Dassault Falcon 8X 2014 2016 116+ 2016 Dassault Falcon 900 1984 1984 500+ 1986 DC-10 Air Tanker 2002 2006 2014 5 2006 Hawker Siddeley Trident 1957 1962 1978 117 1964 1995 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1967 1968 1984 250 1972 Lockheed TriStar (RAF) 1982 1982 1986 9 1986 2014 Martin XB-51 1945 1952 1949 1950 2 1949 1956 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 1965 1969 1989 386 1971 McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender 1975 1979 1987 63 1981 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 1986 1988 2000 200 1990 NR-349 1970-72Vigilante - Eyes of the Fleet, Air International, Lindsay Peacock, November 1975 19?? 0 SNCASO Trident 1948 1958 1953 1958 8 1953 1958 Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 1987 0 Tupolev '73' 1946 1949 1947 1947 1 1947 1949 Tupolev Tu-154 1965 1968 2013 1,026 1968 Tupolev Tu-155 1988 1988 1988 1 1988 1991Yakovlev Yak-141 1975 1991 1985 1986 4 1987 1992 Yakovlev Yak-38 1968 1975 1981 231 1975 1991 Yakovlev Yak-40 1965 1967 1981 1,011 1968 Yakovlev Yak-42 1972 1977 2003 187 1980

Proposed or suspended trijet developments Boeing 747-300 Trijet – downsized 747 to compete with the DC-10 and L-1011, changed to four engines Blended Wing Body Trijet – proposed design based on the Boeing X-48 McDonnell Douglas MD-XX – stretched derivative of the DC-10, project shelved North American NR-349 – proposed interceptor derivative of the A-5 Vigilante, cancelled Airbus twin-tail trijet,Airbus files patent for new trijet design, FlightGlobal.com, Retrieved 2008-12-11. – status unknown Dassault Supersonic Business Jet – suspended Aerion AS2 - Suspended Sukhoi-Gulfstream S-21 Boom Technology Overture - 3-engine design proposed, but changed to 4-engine Boeing 777 – Originally envisioned as a trijet 767 in the 1970s to compete with the DC-10 and the L-1011; later became a new twin-engine design.

See also Trijet

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