Boeing 787 News

North Charleston is a strong contender to produce and assembly the 787-10, which has a fuselage that may be too long to be ferried from the Lowcountry to Puget Sound.

Many gathered with cameras at the perimeter fence and along Merritown Lane, while visitors to the nearby Bournemouth Aviation Museum had a good look from elevated platforms.

The Pacific Northwest's reputation for building the world's best airplanes is getting its proper respect , according to U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens.

United Airlines today increased its 787 Dreamliner order to 65 aircraft with an order for 20 787-10s.

Boeing launched the 787-10 version of its flagship Dreamliner aircraft at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday with 102 firm orders worth nearly $30 billion at list prices.

Big finance waded into a rain-soaked Paris Airshow with more than $10 billion in orders for jumbo passenger jets as planemakers dueled over strategy for large aircraft on Monday.

In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, a United Airlines Boeing 787 is parked at Narita international airport in Narita, east of Tokyo.

Seats and screens are seen in the economy class cabin of Qatar Airways' Boeing 787 Dreamliner after it arrived on its inaugural flight to Heathrow Airport in London last December.

A police vehicle patrols under the rain during the first day of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, Monday June 17, 2013.

Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker, left, poses with Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner at Le Bourget airport on June 17, 2013.

Competition between the European manufacturer Airbus and its key rival - America's Boeing - is set to grab center stage at the Le Bourget airshow in Paris.

Financial details were not disclosed Monday. According to list prices, the order would be worth $5 billion, but customers often negotiate steep discounts.

Boeing's 787 final-assembly line in Everett is busy. State officials are concerned that the work on the much bigger 787-10 will go to Boeing South Carolina, where the building for final assembly has more room than Everett's bays.

Considering that Boeing is looking at absorbing an estimated $700 million in cost overruns thanks to the fixed-price nature of the contract, the fact that the project is on schedule is a welcome sign.

Despite the issues surrounding Dreamliner planes earlier in the year, Boeing says its focus on damage control did not thwart its production efforts.

It started out as a tiny aeroplane manufacturing company in Seattle trying to push the boundaries of the emerging aviation industry in the middle of the First World War.

On the eve of the Paris Air Show, a brand new Qatar 787 made a gorgeous landing at Le Bourget today.

The Paris Air Show, which opens for business on Monday Jun. 17, brings hundreds of aircraft to the skies around the French capital, the usual tense competition between aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, and a slew of innovations large and small.

United Airlines' Boeing 787 Dreamliner leaves DIA on its nonstop service from its hub in Denver to Tokyo-Narita on June 10, 2013.

The Institute of Directors has appointed Nimble Thompson, the outgoing chairman of mechanical and electrical contractor NG Bailey, as its deputy chair.