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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., April 5, 2010 - NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) took another visible step toward full 787 Dreamliner production Monday by placing the first steel column for its Charleston 787 Final Assembly and Delivery facility.
"This new facility will expand our production capability and strengthen the 787 program as we work toward rate," said Marco Cavazzoni, vice president and general manager of 787 Final Assembly and Delivery, Charleston, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "And that reflects our commitment to our customers, our team and our South Carolina community."
Today, Boeing Charleston fabricates, assembles and installs systems for 787 aft fuselage sections and joins and integrates midbody fuselage sections from other structural partners. With the new, 1.2-million-square-foot (92,903-square-meter) building, Boeing will perform final assembly and deliver 787s from North Charleston to customers around the world. Construction on the new facility is on schedule, with production due to begin in July 2011. Boeing will deliver the first 787 built in Charleston in first-quarter 2012. To date, 90 percent of the Boeing direct-contracted dollars for the project have been with South-Carolina-based companies.
The 787 Dreamliner will be more efficient, quieter and have lower emissions than other airplanes while offering passengers greater comfort and the convenience of direct, nonstop flights between more cities around the world. Fifty-seven customers around the world have ordered 866 787s since the program was launched in April 2004, making the Dreamliner the fastest-selling new commercial jetliner in history.
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Boeing Commercial Airplanes Communications
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According to the All things 787 blog site, The plant is due to be completed in the summer of 2011 with final assembly of the first 787 to begin in July 2011, 15 months from now. The first delivery of a North Charleston assembled 787 is scheduled for the first quarter of 2012, about two years from now.
The steel construction should be completed in about 6 months barring any issues such as weather.
On June 30, 2006, Boeing celebrated the start of major assembly of the first 787 at Fuji Heavy Industries' new factory in Handa, Japan, near Nagoya.
On December 6, 2006, Boeing conducted a "virtual rollout" of the 787 in which a simulation of the 787's manufacturing process was shown publicly. Performed using the project's Catia design tool, the simulation was intended to discover production issues prior to assembly of the first airframe, when they are cheaper to fix.
On March 14, 2007, the first production vertical tail fin was rolled out at Boeing's Composite Manufacturing Center in Frederickson, Washington.
On April 16, the first production all-composite nose-and-cockpit section (Section 41) was rolled out at Spirit Aerosystem's plant in Wichita, Kansas.
On January 12, 2007, first major assemblies, forward fuselage, center wing, and center wheel well built by FHI and KHI were shipped on 747 Dreamlifters from Nagoya, Japan. They were delivered to Global Aeronautica in Charleston, In October 2009, Boeing Aircraft announced the selection of the City of North Charleston for its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft assembly and delivery prep center.
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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a mid-sized, wide-body, twin-engine jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the company's most fuel-efficient airliner and the world's first major airliner to use composite materials for most of its construction. Its development has involved a large-scale collaboration with numerous suppliers. The lists shows 671 for 787-8 orders, 195 orders for 787-9 and the total 866 firm orders for the Boeing Company Dreamliner 787 as of February 25, 2010. Many media shows that there are more 787 Dreamliner orders to be counted for the Boeing Company when the final decision have been made by the customers: Air Algerie, Austrian Airlines, El Al, Delta Air Lines, British Airways, Pakistan International Airlines, Emirates, Orient Thai Airlines, GMG Airlines, Air France-KLM, and Thai Airways. The most fuel-efficiency 787 dreamliners will be able to fly everywhere and anywhere whereever they need to be.....
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