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Boeing’s new plane deliveries dropped by 56% in the last year

June 10: The nation's largest airline has announced it will keep the Boeing 737 Max out of service through early September. American Airlines, which had canceled Boeing 737 Max flights through August 19th, will now keep the planes on the ground through September 3rd – Jun 10, 2019

With the 737 Max jet still grounded after two deadly crashes, deliveries of new Boeing jets are falling far behind last year’s pace.

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Boeing said Tuesday that it delivered 30 commercial airliners during May, down 56% from the 68 it made in May 2018.

WATCH: May 24 — Boeing 737 MAX planes could be back in the air by late June, regulators say

Deliveries of 737s plummeted from 47 a year ago to just eight last month. All eight were an older model of 737, call the NG.

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Boeing is still building Max jets in Washington state, but they are being parked for now.

READ MORE: Boeing 737 MAX likely grounded through most of summer season, airline group says

The Chicago-based company has 4,550 unfilled orders for the Max but stopped deliveries after regulators around the world grounded the plane following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people. It’s working on changes to flight-control software implicated in the crashes.

Boeing reported a cancelled order for 71 Max planes that were to be leased to Jet Airways until the financially struggling Indian carrier suspended all flights in April.

Boeing has not reported other large cancellations despite the Max’s grounding.

WATCH: May 23 — No timeline for Boeing’s 737 MAX planes to resume flying

Orders for all Boeing airlines were “anemic” in May but should be better at next week’s Paris air show, said Cowen Research aerospace analyst Cai von Rumohr.

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Shares of Boeing fell $4.47, or 1.3%, to close at $349.33 on Tuesday. They have dropped 21% since early March, shortly before the second Max crash.

READ MORE: FAA says Boeing 737 MAX 8 approval could come as early as late June — sources

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