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  Boeing 787 on track for November deliveries

 
    by Geoffrey Thomas 
 

Boeing is pressing forward with the 787 flight test program and believes first delivery to ANA by the end of November is feasible.

The manufacturer expects to obtain Type Inspection Authorization for the 787 this week after passing flutter and structural wing bending tests. TIA will formally kick off the FAA certification process.

Meanwhile, ZA005, the fifth flight test aircraft and the first powered by GEnx-1B engines, is on the flight line at Everett and is being prepared for its first flight, currently scheduled for May 8. The final flight test Dreamliner, ZA006, is expected to be in the air by June 4 and now is in building 40-24 adjacent to the 777 production line.

Boeing is conducting up to 90 hr. of flight testing weekly to support the delivery goal. By the end of November it plans to have built 30 delivery-standard 787s.

Visiting the 787 production line in Everett last week, ATWOnline saw ship LN17 (the first for Royal Air Maroc) as well as LN18 (for ANA) and LN19 (the second RAM aircraft). LN20, the first for Japan Airlines and also the first "weight-optimized" 787, started final assembly in late March.

STORY ORIGINATED AT:   ATW.COM 

 


 
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