News Release Issued: January 10, 2011 6:45 PM EST
Boeing Celebrates Final Assembly of 1,000th 767
Landmark airplane is last to be built before assembly line moves
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.
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“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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By: tenthije - 14th January 2011 at 13:44
i am sure a few years back Airbus won the tanker contract with A330, but due to congress it was re-opened again
am i correct
The tanker contract is a can of worms best kept closed.
To give a very brief summary: we are now on the third incarnation of the tanker contract. Contract one was awarded to Boeing in 2002/2003, but following a corruption scandal the contract was cancelled in 2005.
The second contract went to EADS/Northrop in 2008. Barely half a year later the US Government Accountability Office cancelled the order. Boeing had filed a complaint and quite a few politicians and citizens complained that EADS was not sufficiently patriotic.
We are now in the third run of the contract. Already mistakes have been made that are dumb enough that when a decision is finally made the loosing party has sufficient grounds to throw a fit. Basically, due to a clerical blunder the Boeing bid was passed to EADS (now without Northrop) and the EADS bid to Boeing. A proposal by Antonov based on the An-112 (a proposed twin jet powered An-70 derivative) was handed half an hour or so too late after the courier got lost on the USAF base where he had to hand in the bidpack.
By: cockerhoop - 14th January 2011 at 08:13
i am sure a few years back Airbus won the tanker contract with A330, but due to congress it was re-opened again
am i correct
By: US Agent - 12th January 2011 at 23:00
Congrats Mr. 767-1001… 😎
By: Grey Area - 12th January 2011 at 18:37
G-BYAA (c/n 25058) became N152AT and is currently awaiting parting out at Goodyear.
G-BYAB (c/n 25139) became N178AT and is also awaiting parting out at Goodyear.
Neither is likely to ever fly again.
By: tommyinyork - 12th January 2011 at 18:18
Are ex BY/TOM G-BYAA/B still in storage ?
By: TonyT - 12th January 2011 at 02:20
Pending Future tanker for US Military?, however the one parked up at East Midlands is due to be chopped up in the next couple of weeks.
By: tommyinyork - 11th January 2011 at 22:14
I thought surely the 767 is due for the chop soon on the production line.
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