The best-selling 737 is a true record breaker, but surprisingly struggled for life in its early years. Boeing even once offered to sell it to the Japanese

The list of trivia about the Boeing 737 is inversely proportional to the size of this relatively small, but immensely successful jet airliner. With more than 6,100 on order and over 4,100 in service worldwide, it should not be surprising, for example, that on average more than 1,250 737s are in the air at any one time. In the 5min it takes to read this feature, more than 65 737s will have landed and taken off.