Boeing delivered 480 airplanes and booked 774 net new orders after taking cancellations into account in 2022, following a strong performance in December, the US aircraft manufacturer said on Tuesday.

Last month, Boeing delivered 69 aircraft, including 53 737 MAXs and 15 wide-body jets, and booked 203 new orders net of cancellations.

For the full year 2021, Boeing had delivered 340 aircraft and booked 479 net new orders.

Boeing said its official backlog at December 31 had grown to 4,578 airplanes, including 3,628 737 MAX aircraft. Around 80% of its deliveries in 2022 will be 737s.

Boeing's deliveries in 2022 include 31,787 Dreamliners, 10 of which were delivered in December.

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved in August the first 787 to be delivered since 2021. Boeing halted deliveries in May 2021 after the FAA raised concerns about its proposed inspection method.

Last month, Joe Biden signed legislation lifting a December 27 deadline imposing a new safety standard for modern cockpit alerts on the MAX 7 and MAX 10 - two new versions of the 737 MAX, the aircraft manufacturer's best-selling model.

If Congress does not intervene, the two new MAX variants will have to be certified by the FAA with modern cockpit alert systems, which Boeing believes could jeopardize the future of these airplanes. Boeing has received over 1,000 orders for the two MAX variants.

In November, Boeing delivered 48 airplanes and booked only 21 new orders: 18 737 MAXs and three 767s. The group said in November that the drop in 737 MAX deliveries was due to the fact that its quality management system had detected "one fuselage defect, two defects and delayed deliveries".

(Reported by David Shepardson, Augustin Turpin)