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Douglas test pilot Arnold Heimerdinger flew the first DC-8 jetliner, N8008D, from Long Beach on 30 May 1958 to Edwards Air Force Base, a flight of about two hours before a crowd estimated at 50,000.

The first Douglas DC-9, N9DC, took off from Long Beach at 11:26 a.m. on 25 February 1965 for a 2 hour 13 minute flight to Edwards Air Force Base, starting flight tests of the rear-engined twinjet.

The first DC-10-10, N10DC, flew from Long Beach to Edwards Air Force Base on 29 August 1970 in a 3 hour 36 minute flight, reaching 300 knots and 30,000 feet on the first widebody trijet's first outing.

The first DC-9 Super 80, later called the MD-80, flew for the first time on 18 October 1979 from Long Beach; the stretched, higher-bypass JT8D-200 twinjet was certified on 25 August 1980.

The first MD-11 trijet, a stretched and updated DC-10 derivative, took off from Long Beach on 10 January 1990, about nine months after its original schedule.

The MD-90, a stretched MD-80 with IAE V2500 engines, first flew on 22 February 1993; launch customer Delta took the first delivery in February 1995 and began service on 2 April 1995.

The first Boeing 717-200, launched as the McDonnell Douglas MD-95, took off from Long Beach at 12:35 p.m. on 2 September 1998 and landed at Boeing's Yuma, Arizona, test center after 4 hours 7 minutes.

On 23 September 1999 Boeing delivered its first 717-200 to launch customer AirTran Airways, three weeks after joint FAA and European certification. AirTran put its first two 717s into revenue service from 12 October.

Lufthansa Cargo took delivery of the last MD-11 ever delivered, freighter D-ALCM (serial 48805), on 22 February 2001, after receiving the last one built, D-ALCN, on 25 January 2001.

On 23 May 2006 Boeing delivered its last two 717s, to Midwest Airlines and AirTran Airways, in a Long Beach ceremony that closed commercial airplane production in Southern California. The 717 program built 156 aircraft.