Boeing 787 Focus Shifts To Delivery and Production Pace

Boeing 787 production line
As deliveries resume, Boeing's focus will shift to completing work on aircraft already built and slowly ramping up 787 monthly production, which has been below two airframes per month since mid-2021.
Credit: Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times
Now that Boeing is resuming 787 deliveries, the company’s focus will shift to wiping out a 120-airframe stored backlog while steadily increasing production from the current rate of about one per month. On July 29, Boeing received long-awaited FAA approval on its plan to inspect undelivered 787s and...

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