Condensed Consolidated Statements Of Operations (USD $) In Millions, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Income Statement [Abstract]
Sales of products	$ 19,485us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsNet	$ 18,015us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsNet
Sales of services	2,664us-gaap_SalesRevenueServicesNet	2,450us-gaap_SalesRevenueServicesNet
Total revenues	22,149us-gaap_Revenues	20,465us-gaap_Revenues
Cost of products	(16,380)us-gaap_CostOfGoodsSold	(15,258)us-gaap_CostOfGoodsSold
Cost of services	(2,100)us-gaap_CostOfServices	(2,020)us-gaap_CostOfServices
Boeing Capital interest expense	(16)us-gaap_FinancialServicesCosts	(18)us-gaap_FinancialServicesCosts
Total costs and expenses	(18,496)us-gaap_CostOfRevenue	(17,296)us-gaap_CostOfRevenue
Gross profit	3,653us-gaap_GrossProfit	3,169us-gaap_GrossProfit
Income from operating investments, net	79	59
General and administrative expense	(945)us-gaap_GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense	(877)us-gaap_GeneralAndAdministrativeExpense
Research and development expense, net	(769)us-gaap_ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense	(809)us-gaap_ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense
Gain on dispositions, net	1us-gaap_GainLossOnDispositionOfAssets
Earnings from operations	2,019us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss	1,542us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss
Other (loss)/income, net	(12)us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense	9us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingIncomeExpense
Interest and debt expense	(61)us-gaap_InterestAndDebtExpense	(92)us-gaap_InterestAndDebtExpense
Earnings before income taxes	1,946	1,459
Income tax expense	(610)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit	(494)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Net earnings	$ 1,336us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	$ 965us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss
Basic earnings per share	$ 1.89us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasic	$ 1.30us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasic
Diluted earnings per share	$ 1.87us-gaap_EarningsPerShareDiluted	$ 1.28us-gaap_EarningsPerShareDiluted
Cash dividends paid per share	$ 0.91	$ 0.73
Weighted average diluted shares (millions)	714.2	754.1

Number of diluted shares or units, before adjustment for contingently issuable shares or units and other shares or units not deemed outstanding, determined by relating the portion of time within a reporting period that common shares or units have been outstanding to the total time in that period.

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