Boeing jet deliveries up from a year ago

Boeing said Monday that its second quarter 2015 commercial airplane deliveries were up from a year ago.

The Chicago-based company said it delivered 197 commercial airliners in the second quarter of 2015, and 381 jets in the first half of the year.

That compares with 181 jet deliveries in the second quarter of 2014 and 342 in the first six months of 2014.

Delivieries were led by the single-aisle 737 — the fuselage of which is made by Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita — with 128 of the airplanes delivered in the second quarter of 2015 and 249 in the first half.

The company’s newest jetliner, the 787 Dreamliner, had the second most deliveries for the quarter — 30 — but was tied at 48 with the larger 777 for second-most deliveries in the first six months of 2015.

The model with the fewest deliveries was the 767, at five in the quarter ended June 30.

This story was originally published July 6, 2015 at 11:02 AM with the headline "Boeing jet deliveries up from a year ago."