Final Assembly Begins on First P-8A

April 07, 2008
Credit: BOEING
Final assembly begins in Boeing’s Renton, Wash., factory for the first U.S. Navy P-8A patrol aircraft, as its 737 derivative fuselage is lowered into place. The Poseidon fuselage was built by Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kan., using a Boeing digital construction system that was pioneered on...

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