How the Tu-104B fits into the Tu-104 story
Tu-104B is the representative branch of the Tupolev Tu-104 family, capturing the higher-capacity branch most associated with the family’s mature service.
This page isolates the Tu-104B branch of the Tupolev Tu-104 family, focusing on the engines, service entry, seating, range, and mission role that justify a dedicated variant page while keeping the family history on the canonical parent URL.
Service entry
1957
Seating
100 to 100
Range
1,370 nm
Variant history
Why it branches from the family
The Tu-104B is treated as the representative branch because it captures the higher-capacity branch most associated with the family’s mature service.
Variant pages stay intentionally narrower than the family page so differences in cabin, engines, mission, and market role remain clear without duplicating the full program history.
Fact rows
Reference snapshot
- Engines
- Mikulin AM-3M
- Type data
- Service entry
- 1957
- Operator records
- Typical seating
- 100 to 100
- Operator layouts
- Range
- 1,370 nm
- Planning data
Return to the family page
Variant pages stay intentionally narrower than family pages. They isolate meaningful technical or commercial differences while the canonical family page holds the broader historical narrative.