Customer Financing (Customer Financing Asset Impairment Charges) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Customer Financing [Line Items]
Impairment charges	$ 93	$ 113	$ 90
Customer Financing [Member]
Customer Financing [Line Items]
Impairment charges	39	43	66
Customer Financing [Member] \| Boeing Capital Corporation [Member]
Customer Financing [Line Items]
Impairment charges	1	13	45
Customer Financing [Member] \| Other Boeing [Member]
Customer Financing [Line Items]
Impairment charges	$ 38	$ 30	$ 21

Amount of write-down of assets recognized in the income statement. Includes, but is not limited to, losses from tangible assets, intangible assets and goodwill.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 28
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109223946&loc=d3e3602-108585

Reference 2: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 360
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 4
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109226348&loc=d3e2420-110228

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