Boeing Celebrates Final Assembly Of 1,000th 767

[Blue_Tires]

EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Final assembly started today on the 1,000th Boeing (NYSE: BA) 767 airplane. Workers marked the milestone with a celebration at the Everett, Wash. factory.

"This milestone is a credit to every employee who had a hand in building 767s over the past 30 years," said Kim Pastega, vice president and general manager of the 767 program, Boeing Commercial Airplanes. "It is a testament to engineering a high-quality product that continues to improve through the years."

Final assembly is the last step of the production process before the airplane rolls out of the factory on its way to the paint hangar and the Everett Delivery Center for ground and flight tests. The 1,000th airplane – a 767-300ER (extended range) passenger model for ANA (All Nippon Airways) – is the last 767 to complete final assembly in its current home. Beginning with line number 1001 – also a 767-300ER for ANA – all future 767s will complete that step in a new, smaller bay where production is scheduled to increase in 2011.

The 1,000th airplane is scheduled for delivery next month. ANA, a long-time Boeing customer, has taken delivery of 89 767s since placing its first order in 1979.

Boeing will use the 767 as the platform for its NewGen Tanker if it wins the U.S. Air Force KC-X Tanker competition. That contract award currently is scheduled for early this year.

The 767 family is a family of clean, quiet, fuel-efficient airplanes that provide maximum market versatility in the 200- to 300-seat market. The 767 family includes three passenger models -- the 767-200ER, 767-300ER and 767-400ER -- and a medium-widebody freighter, which is based on the 767-300ER fuselage.

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[Cali_Democrat]

1. How long before this factory is shipped to China for slave wages?

Give it a few years.....

[sharp_stick]

2. Now if they could only get the damned 787

off the ground.

The 767 is one of my favorite planes to fly on, nice and wide, fairly high ceiling in the aisle. Boeing also makes one of my least favorites, the 757 is everything the 767 isn't. Narrow as hell and really long, if you get stuck near the back it takes forever and a day to get off the thing.

[conspirator]

3. My favourite is the 777, huge and comfortable n/t

[DemoTex]

4. Damn good airplane, the Seven-Six. But the Boeing 737 is my all-time-favorite.

'Course I have thousands and thousands of hours in the Boeing 737-200/300/400.

My motto: IF IT AIN'T BOEING, I AIN'T GOING!
(Unless, of course, it is a Lockheed!)

[Blue_Tires]

6. I was always partial to the 727

Loved riding the tri-jets as a kid...

[pampango]

5. Nice to see that numbers 1000 and 1001 are exports to Japan like many other Boeing products. n/t