The Boeing Co. announced Tuesday it will perform landing gear exchange, repair and overhaul services for Qantas Airways’ fleet of six 747-400ERs. (BA) (SPR) ...
Boeing has lost another six 787 Dreamliner orders, the company revealed today in the weekly update to its order website. The customer was not identified ... That brings to a round 100 the total number of Dreamliner cancellations after more than two years of delays and the downturn in the aviation business since 2008. The new jet still has a big order backlog of 860 jets ... The canceled order is worth about $1 billion at list prices, though market data from airplane valuation firm Avitas pegs
TOPEKA — Randy Foster of Wichita had an ominous warning for state legislators Thursday: Restore cuts to state mental health services or deal with a stampede of untreated mentally ill people when unemployment payments run out for thousands of aircraft workers idled by the recession ... Foster has some experience with that, having descended into clinical depression and alcoholism after he lost his job as a precision sheet-metal mechanic at Boeing in 2002 following the 9/11 attacks. Since then,
This year is pivotal for Spirit AeroSystems ... The company has six new development programs in the works. All of them — Boeing's 787, 747-8 and P-8A, Gulfstream's G250 and G650, and the BR725 thrust reverser — are in the flight test stage ... They will be moving into the initial stages of production, said Spirit CEO Jeff Turner ... "They all need care and feeding at the same time," Turner said. "It's like having sextuplets instead of having one (child) every couple of years." ...
Boeing Wichita has been awarded a $35.4 million contract for continuing support of VC-25A aircraft, better known as Air Force One when carrying the president ... Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. issued the contract ...
Jim McNerney, The Boeing Co.’s chairman, president and chief executive, says the company will decide later this year whether to begin putting new engines on its 737. (SPR) (BA) ...
The Boeing Co.’s St. Louis-based defense unit won a $12.4 million contract with the U.S. Navy to repair various components of the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. (BA) ...