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Official delivery of first 787 Dreamliner to take place this week

Official delivery of first 787 Dreamliner to take place this week
Takeo Kikuchi (left), All Nippon Airways' general manager for its Seattle office, shakes hands with Paul Baldwin, Boeing's Aircraft Contracts, after signing the final paperwork for contractual delivery of the first-ever 787 Dreamliner (Photo: Boeing)
Takeo Kikuchi (left), All Nippon Airways' general manager for its Seattle office, shakes hands with Paul Baldwin, Boeing's Aircraft Contracts, after signing the final paperwork for contractual delivery of the first-ever 787 Dreamliner (Photo: Boeing)
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Pilot's view from the 787 cockpit (Photo: Boeing)
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Pilot's view from the 787 cockpit (Photo: Boeing)
787 interior (Photo: Boeing)
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787 interior (Photo: Boeing)
ANA will take delivery of the first 787 destined for commercial use this week (Photo: Boeing)
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ANA will take delivery of the first 787 destined for commercial use this week (Photo: Boeing)
Takeo Kikuchi (left), All Nippon Airways' general manager for its Seattle office, shakes hands with Paul Baldwin, Boeing's Aircraft Contracts, after signing the final paperwork for contractual delivery of the first-ever 787 Dreamliner (Photo: Boeing)
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Takeo Kikuchi (left), All Nippon Airways' general manager for its Seattle office, shakes hands with Paul Baldwin, Boeing's Aircraft Contracts, after signing the final paperwork for contractual delivery of the first-ever 787 Dreamliner (Photo: Boeing)
The first ANA Dreamliner during flight testing (Photo: Boeing)
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The first ANA Dreamliner during flight testing (Photo: Boeing)
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Contracts have been signed, funds have been transferred and flight testing is complete. All is in readiness for the hand-over of the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner destined for commercial use. Boeing will mark the occasion with a delivery ceremony at its 787 factory in Everett, Washington, this morning before launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA) flies its newest acquisition to Tokyo on Tuesday at 6:35 a.m.

The well documented delays in the 787 project have resulted in the first delivery taking place three years later than originally scheduled and the challenge now for Boeing is to meet an ambitious production schedule. There are already more than 800 Dreamliners on order and to meet this demand the company is aiming to churn out 10 of the mid-size, long-range airplane per month by late 2013 - an unprecedented feat for a wide-body aircraft (this WSJ article expands on the huge production task Boeing is embarking upon).

The first ANA Dreamliner during flight testing (Photo: Boeing)
The first ANA Dreamliner during flight testing (Photo: Boeing)

A webcast of this week's delivery ceremony events and flyaway will be shown at the Boeing site.

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