Boeing delivers first 787 Dreamliner after almost two years

Boeing took a big step forward Wednesday as 120 of the new 787 Dreamliner aircraft are now up for delivery.

Monday federal regulators said they were satisfied with the production of the 787 Dreamliner Passenger Jet and could resume deliveries. That’s after almost two years of being parked due to various production issues.

Boeing has maintained that “none of these issues is an immediate safety or flight concern for the in-service fleet.”

Production of the 787 was complicated by several issues including gaps between panels of the carbon-composite skin and use of unapproved titanium parts from a supplier in Italy.

According to Leeham Company Aviation Industry Expert Scott Hamilton, production was halted, “to eliminate that paper-thin gap that was the cause of suspension of deliveries and to fix some other issues that they discovered upon inspection of airplanes,” he said.

Many of the reworks were completed in Everett.

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