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Monday, August 26, 2013

Boeing Rolls Out First 787-9

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Boeing has completed its first 787-9, as the company rolled the aircraft out of its Everett, Wash., production facility this weekend. 

 

 

(Boeing's first 787-9. Photo, courtesy of Boeing.)

 

The 787-9 is 20 feet longer than the 787-8 and carries 40 more passengers. It also has a range that is 300 nm farther than the 787-8. 

 

The roll-out was one of few bright spots for Boeing's 787 program, following a four-month global grounding of the Dreamliner fleet earlier this year after a battery fire in January diverted an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight. After the grounding was lifted, a fire broke out on an Ethiopian Airlines 787 at Heathrow Airport, leading to a new airworthiness directive from FAA instructing operators to remove the aircraft's fixed emergency locator transmitter (ELT). 

 

Boeing plans on flying the 787-9 for the first time later this summer. 

 

Launch customer Air New Zealand is scheduled to take delivery of its first 787-9 in mid-2014.