Boeing launched the ecoDemonstrator program in 2012 to enable aviation’s relentless pursuit to improve efficiency, minimize its environmental footprint and enhance safety. With successive airplane platforms, the ecoDemonstrator program takes promising technologies out of laboratories and tests them in an operational environment to solve real-world problems for airlines and passengers, and to help mitigate the climate impact of our industry.
Eleven airplanes have served as flying test beds for the program since it began in 2012. In 2023, Boeing expanded the program with “Explorer” airplanes that focus on short-term testing of an individual technology. Since the program began, the ecoDemonstrator program has evaluated more than 250 technologies – 28% have progressed onto our products and services, 52% are still being matured and 20% provided helpful learnings but were discontinued.
A Boeing 777-200ER was the program’s latest flagship airplane, having served as the main test platform from 2022-2024.
