Boeing Resumes Production Test Flights for 787 Dreamliner

Boeing Co. (BA) "Ground tests have occurred," Marc Birtel, a Boeing spokesman, said today in an e-mail. "Stay tuned on the flight test." That flight is among the last steps before Boeing submits the redesigned lithium-ion battery system to the U.S.

The test results so far have been in line with the testing Boeing did when it was developing the fix, spokesman Marc Birtel Smouldering batteries — including one fire on the ground — prompted air safety authorities to ground the world's 787s in ...

Boeing has decided to use the tougher RCTA standard for testing its 787 batteries. Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said the aircraft manufacturer did not use the standard before because it was developed "after we had completed our certification plans ...

May 16--Boeing and General Electric said Wednesday they told airlines to inspect and possibly replace the engines on some Boeing 777 jets because of a potential manufacturing defect in a gearbox. The engine-maker issued two service bulletins to ...

May 03--Boeing's South Carolina manufacturing complex has won its first airplane work that isn't for the 787 Dreamliner. The jet-maker's North Charleston facility will design and perhaps build the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic composite inner ...

(Updates share price in 13th paragraph.) April 29 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co.'s commercial jet chief is going back to his roots in sales to help buff the planemaker's image in Japan after the grounding of the 787 Dreamliner. No country felt the 787's ...

(CNN) -- How will the Dreamliner get back in the air? The answers lie in a dense federal document posted online Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration's Airworthiness Directive for Boeing's 787-8 was posted online Thursday and goes into ...

The Federal Aviation Administration decided not to impose strict test requirements for the lithium ion batteries used on Boeings 787 Dreamliner aircraft due to timing and the fact that they exceeded regulatory requirements, agency officials said at ...

April 22 (Bloomberg) -- ANA Holdings Inc., the biggest operator of Boeing Co.'s grounded 787 Dreamliners, expects to complete repairs next month to get the jet airborne for the first time since battery flaws halted flights in January. The carrier ...