Production of 747 and 777 planes to gear up

NEW YORK -- Boeing Co. will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines. Read More

Boeing says 787 testing is going well

MINNEAPOLIS — Boeing is putting its new 787 through an aggressive flight-testing schedule, with the fourth plane set to begin test flights on Sunday. Boeing says it needs to fly the test planes a total of about 90 hours per week to run through the tests needed to deliver the plane by the end of this year. Read More

Boeing's positive impact felt across the state

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — South Carolina officials have hailed Boeing's plans to build an assembly plant for its 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston as the biggest economic development project in state history. Read More

Ford, Gilliard focus on jobs

Equal opportunity dialogue established

COLUMBIA -- Extra care is being taken to ensure that minorities and women have an equal chance to benefit from Boeing Co.'s expansion in North Charleston. Read More

Boeing suppliers could be 10-to-15

Boeing Co. won't be nailed down on the specific number of suppliers that could follow its 787 Dreamliner assembly plant to the Charleston area, but another Fortune 500 business that's almost certainly working to provide factory sites to those vendors has aired its own guesstimate. Read More

Boeing plant question: Who will pay for roads?

New study makes traffic suggestions, but issue of funding still unresolved

The prospect of thousands of jobs coming to the new Boeing Co. jet assembly plant is accelerating the need to make major road improvements to ease the growing traffic congestion around Charleston International Airport. Read More

Colleges might get deal on space

N. Charleston offers site for Boeing Co. training

The city of North Charleston wants to give the South Carolina technical college system a cut-rate deal on office space the state needs to train Boeing Co. employees. Read More

Weighing deal's costs, benefits

The 787 assembly line that Boeing Co. is building in North Charleston could lift some area residents out of poverty while adding $23 million in expansion costs to local school districts. Read More

Freighter's first flight flourishes

Company's largest plane takes off a year later than planned

EVERETT, Wash. — Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter — the biggest plane the company has ever built — successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned. Read More

Biggest ever Boeing 747 taking to the sky

The biggest jumbojet Boeing has ever made is scheduled to lift off Monday on its first test flight at Paine Field at Everett. The 747-8 is 250 feet long — 18 feet longer than current jumbo 747s. Read More

Work force swells at plants

787 manufacturer to boost local fuselage production rate

Boeing Co. has brought in hundreds of extra workers to help piece together the 787 fuselage sections at its North Charleston campus. The local head count has surged, increasing to 3,000 workers from about 2,200 last summer, as part of a push to bring the company's two neighboring fuselage plants up to a quicker production rate, said Boeing Charleston spokeswoman Candy Eslinger. Read More

Inside the Dreamliner

Boeing 787 cabin mockup reveals upgraded windows, typical airline seating and legroom

SEATTLE — Boeing showed off the interior of a 787 Dreamliner parked at Paine Field and provided a glimpse of some advances on the 787 assembly line inside the factory. The partial passenger cabin installed in Dreamliner No. 3 will be used to test elements of the passenger experience, including air flow, noise levels and the heating and emergency oxygen systems. Read More

Boeing package signed

Deal spells out minimum employment numbers

Consider it the final handshake. Boeing Co. executives and state officials have signed off on the state incentive agreement that paves the way for the aerospace giant's future $750 million 787 Dreamliner plant in North Charleston. Read More

Area faces tough competition for supplier jobs

Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner assembly line came with the hope of hundreds of supplier jobs that will crop up to support the aerospace giant as it pieces together the new passenger jets in North Charleston. But those jobs aren't necessarily coming to the Lowcountry. Read More

Stall High School to open academy

Boeing gives school district $50,000 grant for project

The benefits spurred by Boeing's expansion in the Lowcountry will be tangible to Charleston County students this fall with the opening of a new aeronautics academy on the Stall High School campus. Read More