Abstract: In order to effectively manage the complicated aircraft configurations in modern aircraft manufacture industry and to resolve the difficult problems on aircraft configurations control in product data management, the characteristics of modern aircraft manufacture and the questions brought forward to aircraft manufacture industry nowadays by them are analyzed. The importance of configurations control is also emphasized. After some correlative primary conceptions about aircraft configurations control techniques are explicitly defined, the successful experiences on these techniques within Boeing Aircraft Company Group are used for reference to specially indicated the four key contents of aircraft configurations control. Aiming at the actuality and future of Chinese aircraft manufacture industry, the tasks to realize the aircraft configurations control techniques which should be accomplished at present time are also elucidated.