Boeing 727-200 American Airlines AstroBoeing 727 American Airlines Astro Jet model airplane. The Boeing 727 is a narrow body trijet airliner that was produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes for 21 years from 1963 to 1984. The 727 was designed as a follow on to the Boeing 707 quad jet airliner from which it borrowed the cockpit and some of the fuselage design. The Boeing 727 is a tri jet with an engine each side of the fuselage just adjacent to the leading edge of the tail fin. The third