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The final Boeing 787 Dreamliner to join the flight test fleet made its first flight today from Paine Field in Everett, Wash. The airplane, ZA006, is the second 787 equipped with General Electric GEnx engines to fly.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its international debut landing at the Farnborough Airport at 9:09 a.m. in support of the Farnborough International Airshow that begins Monday.

Today Boeing announced that it has completed the first maintenance training class for the 787 Dreamliner.

The second Boeing 787 Dreamliner, ZA002, landed at 10:53 a.m. local time today in Victorville, Calif. This marks the beginning of the first flight-test operations outside of Washington state for the program.

[18 Dec 2009 | No Comment ]

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner took to the sky for the first time today, ushering a new era in air travel as it departed before an estimated crowd of more than 12,000 employees and guests from Paine Field in Everett, Wash.

[14 Dec 2009 | No Comment ]

Boeing [NYSE: BA] completed high-speed taxi tests on the first 787 Dreamliner today. This is the last in a series of functional tests planned in preparation for first flight.

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