All things 787

Today Michael Huerta, the FAA chief, testified before a House subcommittee on aviation that he expects that his staff will complete their re...

Boeing 787 program managers lead by BCA Chief met with FAA leaders lead by FAA Chief Mike Huerta to listen to Boeing's plan to fix the b...

I have updated my 787 tracking spreadsheet to reflect the firing order from L/N 131 to L/N 160. A couple of interesting things stand out. ...

As Boeing's GEnx powered 787 initiated test flights to gather data on the operating environment of the aircraft's lithium ion batter...

A Federal Bankruptcy judge approved of AMR's revised contracts for aircraft purchases today.  This now clears the way for the airline to...

As the NTSB and the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) conduct separate but loosely coordinated investigations into the two 787 battery inc...

The FAA, this evening, ordered a temporary grounding of US-based 787s due to the continuing Lithium Ion battery issues.  The precipitating e...

UPDATE 2: Report now that Japan Airlines is temporarily grounding all 787s as well. UPDATE: ANA has told the local Japanese media NHK that...

In a proposal revealed by Flightglobal's Stephen Trimble , AMR has proposed to finalize the 787 and 737MAX deals (both currently a purch...

The FAA and Boeing announced that the government will carry out a detailed review of the design, manufacture, and assembly of the electrical...

Another eventful day for Boeing and the 787.  In a surreal twist from yesterday's events, another JAL 787 in Boston experienced a fuel l...

The most recently delivered 787 to Japan Airlines (ZA183, L/N 84, JA829J delivered on Dec. 20, 2012) suffered a small but intense fire in th...

Now that Boeing has put to bed a very successful 2012 which includes regaining the title as the top commercial aircraft producer (thanks in ...

2012 787 Year in Review 2012 was a year highs and lows for the 787 program.  While Boeing executed very well on it plan to increase produc...

Boeing gave a Christmas gift (an early one at that) to its shareholders by delivering 6 787s to 6 current operators of the aircraft.  Boeing...

As we approach the Holiday week, Boeing will be going into a slow down mode as is the custom around this time of the year.  There have been ...

787 flight activity picked up this week as the weather cleared long enough for Boeing to send up another 787 on its 1st flight.  Yesterday T...

With Boeing's North Charleston plant building a 787 once every month, there is an expectation that we would be seeing more airplanes on ...

With many of the 787s that are in pre-delivery having gone through their first (B-1) flights. I am going to take a moment and speculate on d...

UPDATE (6:38PM): Looks like Boeing has delivered LAN's 3rd 787 today.  Flightware shows a 787 delivery flight leaving Everett at 5:10PM...