The annual airliner sales race is out of the starting gate today at England’s Farnborough Air Show.
The annual airliner sales race is out of the starting gate today at England’s Farnborough Air Show.
Boeing jumped into the lead with a $7.2-billion order by Los Angeles-based Air Lease for 60 737 Max 8 and 15 737 Max 9 aircraft. The leasing company also acquired rights to order 25 more of the aircraft.
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Boeing’s biggest jetliner, the newest version of the 747 jumbo jet, won a total of five orders Monday from two airlines.
Geography had little to do with establishing Western Washington as one of the world’s great centers for the commercial aerospace industry. The happy historical coincidences and accidents that put Bill Boeing and his interest in aviation here, instead of somewhere else, as well as the decisions, gambles and mistakes that made his namesake company a dominant player in the industry while others faded, were not a function of place the way that the forest-products industry grew up here because that’s where the trees were.
WASHINGTON — A Boeing plan to redesign the 787 Dreamliner’s fire-plagued lithium-ion batteries won approval Tuesday from the Federal Aviation Administration, although officials gave no estimate for when the planes would be allowed to fly passengers again.
Disappointing sales for Boeing newest 747 airliner could force the company to cut back the production pace on its Everett assembly line next year, the company said in a newly released filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.
Defense spending soared in Washington state last year, even as the specter of long-anticipated budget cuts drew closer.
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