Fun facts:The total number of 737s in service is 4023, if you were to add the ones on order, the number jumps to 4683. Boeings share of the airline industry is at 48.8% with 10,544 in service and 946 on order. (These figures include the 7E7 orders).Airbus has a 15.4% share with 3320 aircraft in service and 1100 on order. (This includes the A-380)Rounding out the top 3 is Bomberdier with a 9.6% share, 2,069 aircraft in service and 288 on order. There are still 4 Douglas DC-3s in service, Rossair Kenya-1, Basler Airlines-1, Enterprise Air-1, Rhoades Aviation-1. Bear in mind that the DC-3 airframe is 60 years old.Source : Flight International (www.flightinternational.com).

To supplement...At any one time there are 700 737's in the air around the world.After 90 million flights the 737 has caried 7.5 billion passengers, equal to approx. half the people who have ever lived in history.The USAF, in 1997, had nineteen 737's designated CT-43's being used as navigator trainers.Source:Aircraft of the WorldInternational Masters Publishers c.1997Glenn"If God would have wanted man to fly He would have given him more money"