The 111 Boeing aeroplanes
Do the 111 aircraft announced by Türkiye and Bangladesh turn into firm orders on Boeing's own books, and are any of the 50 options taken up?
The Quote
BIG DAY FOR BOEING AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURING! Today, Türkiye and Bangladesh announced purchases totaling 111 Boeing Airplanes, with options for 50 more, following support from Howard Lutnick and the Department of Commerce. TENS of BILLIONS of Dollars in Sales, and huge U.S. Exports, supporting tens of thousands of American Jobs across our Country.
Truth Social, @realDonaldTrump, post 117323148147220269, Sep 24, 2026Where it stands
- Kept 111 aircraft, announced as purchases by Türkiye and Bangladesh. Booked in Boeing's September table, published Oct 13, 2026
- Not yet due Options for 50 more. Whenever any are exercised, if they are
What would settle it
Boeing's own Orders and Deliveries tables, published monthly at boeing.com and reconciled in its quarterly filings. Only firm orders under contract are counted there, and a separate line under accounting standard ASC 606 removes orders the company no longer judges likely to be delivered. A government announcing a purchase is not the same thing as Boeing booking one, and that distance is the whole question here. Read it fairly: large orders routinely take weeks or months to be signed and booked, so an absence from the September tables settles nothing on its own. What would settle it is the 111 appearing, in full or in part, or the year closing without them.
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The people
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Donald Trump
President of the United States
Announced the figure on Truth Social on Sep 24, 2026 and credited the Commerce Department.
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Howard Lutnick
Secretary of Commerce
Named in the post as having supported the deals. He is on the watchlist, and the Commerce Department's own records are the second place to look.
Filings since 24 September 2026
The Boeing Company, from the SEC's own feed
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- 2026-11-10 Note The checkpoint moves to Boeing's November table, due on the second Tuesday of December, Dec 8. The 111 are still booked; the 50 options are still only options. Source
- 2026-11-10 Data Boeing's October table is out, with data through Oct 31. Nothing new from either country. Turkish Airlines still sits in September for 100 737 MAX, and Biman Bangladesh Airlines still has its September six 737 MAX and five 787-10 next to the 14 from April. Neither airline has a line in October, so no option has been booked under its own name. October added Avolon's 140 737 MAX, six for Allegiant and the rest under Unidentified Customer(s), and gross orders for the year went from 663 to 828. An exercised option could in principle sit under Unidentified Customer(s), and the table cannot rule that out. Source
- 2026-10-21 Note The checkpoint moves to Boeing's October table, due on the second Tuesday of November, Nov 10. The 111 are booked. What is left is the 50 options, and an option shows in the table only once it is exercised as a firm order. Source
- 2026-10-13 Data Boeing's September table is out, and the 111 are in it. Turkish Airlines is entered in September for 100 737 MAX. Biman Bangladesh Airlines is entered in September for 11: six 737 MAX and five 787-10. That is 111 firm orders, booked in the month of the announcement, with both customers named. The 14 that Biman booked in April are a separate line and are still there, so they were not part of the 111 and the airline has ordered 25 this year. The table now shows 663 gross orders for 2026. The 50 options are not orders and are not in it. Source
- 2026-10-12 Data Read ahead of Tuesday. Boeing's table runs to Aug 31 and shows 498 gross orders for 2026. 172 of them, more than a third, are listed as "Unidentified Customer(s)", so the 111 could be booked without either country's name appearing. Nothing from Türkiye is in the 2026 table. The last Turkish entries are 50 Dreamliners for Turkish Airlines in September 2025 and 100 737 MAX for Pegasus in December 2024. Source
- 2026-10-12 Data The same table already holds an order from Bangladesh. Biman Bangladesh Airlines is entered in April 2026 for 14 aircraft: four 737 MAX, two 787-9 and eight 787-10. That is five months before the post of Sep 24. The post does not say whether those 14 are counted in the 111, and nothing we have read settles it either way. Source
- 2026-09-24 Note Watch opened. Nothing is proved or disproved yet. Boeing counts only firm orders under contract in its monthly tables, so the question is whether announced purchases become booked ones, and how long that takes.
- 2026-09-24 Statement Trump posted the figure on Truth Social at 00:19 New York time, taken here from the site's own public feed rather than from coverage. The number to hold is 111 aircraft plus options on 50 more. Source
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