Boeing Receives Order For 40 737s From GE Capital Aviation Services

(RTTNews) - Boeing Co. (BA) said Monday that it has received an order for 40 737s from GE Capital Aviation Services, or GECAS, the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of General Electric Co. (GE).

The order, valued at $3.9 billion at list prices, consists of 20 737 MAX 8s and 20 Next-Generation 737-800s. The order, booked in 2013, was previously attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website.

The follow-on order increases the GECAS order book for the 737 MAX to 95 airplanes and the Next-Generation 737 to 387 airplanes, the most for both models by any company in the leasing industry.

With today's announcement, GECAS has ordered 638 airplanes directly from Boeing, which includes 737s, 747s, 757s, 767s, 777s and 787s. To date, GECAS has taken delivery of 459 of the airplanes.