CHICAGO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Boeing Co.(BA), the world's largest maker of commercial airplanes, said on Thursday it delivered 144 jets in the fourth quarter, boosting its total for the full year to 527, five more than it projected after the Sept. 11 attacks slashed air travel worldwide. Chicago-based Boeing in December said it was still on target for 522 deliveries, up from 489 in 2000 and below the record 620 jets it delivered in 1999. Boeing spokesman Larry McCracken said the totals were higher than expected as the company worked with customers to help them take airplanes on order. The totals included 85 narrow-body 737s in December and 299 for the year, or 57 percent of the total. The wide-body 777 accounted for 16 deliveries in December and 61 for the year. Any additional information on 2003 deliveries will not be released until Jan. 23, when the company reports its fourth quarter financial results. Boeing also said it delivered 87 military aircraft in 2001, led by the 36 shipments from its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter line. The company expects to deliver 350 to 400 jets in 2002 and less than that in 2003. It expects to lay off as many as 30,000 workers -- or about 30 percent of its commercial airplane work force -- by the end of 2002 to cope with the airline downturn. Boeing has begun slashing jetliner production to roughly half its current rate and announced it would take a $700 million charge, which would virtually eliminate its fourth quarter profit. In a Dec. 13 announcement, Boeing blamed a variety of factors for the charge, including severance pay, supplier penalties and lost value of aircraft and spares. Before the December deliveries were announced Boeing shares rose 1.7 percent to close at $38.75 on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock has fallen 11 percent since the Sept. 11 attacks and was the worst performing issue in the Dow Jones industrials average in 2001, losing 41 percent for the year. ©2001 Reuters Limited.