Paine Field December 2

ZA196 Japan Airlines 787-8 JA838J departing on a C3 flight. Scheduled for a C4 flight on Wednesday. Photo by Dusty Hightower.

JA838J back from the C3.


 

ZA665 Avianca 787-8 N780AV was scheduled for a functional check flight today, there was a taxi test only.

WE316 American Airlines 777 N732AN departing on a C1 flight. Photo by Dusty Hightower.

Paine Field December 1

After 11 days at the fuel dock the first KC-46A was moved to the compass rose, then to stall 111.

 

 

 

ZA196 JAL 787-8 JA838J departing on a C2 customer flight. Scheduled for a C3 flight on Tuesday.

Deicing trucks 46 and 58 deiced control surfaces on Thai Airways 787 HS-TQD this afternoon.

Paine Field November 29

ZA196 JAL 787-8 JA838J back from a B3 flight.

 

Boeing flightline.

Paine Field November 22

ZA296 United Airlines 787-8 N30913 back from an incomplete B1 flight.

 

ZA196 Japan Airlines 787-8 JA838J back from a B1 flight.

 

ZB005 Air New Zealand 787-9 ZK-NZG departing on a B2 flight. Scheduled for a C1 customer flight on Sunday.

Seats are being installed on Avianca 787-8 N780AV.

 

ZA477 Qatar Airways 787-8 A7-BCR departing on a functional check flight. Scheduled for a C1 customer flight on Sunday.

Paine Field November 14

FedEx 767 N109FE delivery flight to Memphis.

 

Another FedEx 767 was rolled out of the 40-32 to the paint hangar tonight.

 

 

 

 

There was an initial fueling on Royal Air Maroc 787-8 CN-RGB this afternoon at the fuel dock.

 

 

 

On Thursday night two contract workers installing the IFE system on Singapore Airlines 777 9V-SWY were injured when a seat belt airbag deployed. One person with head injuries was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center and another transported by aid car to Swedish Medical Center at Mill Creek. Photo from komonews.com shows 9V-SWY in stall 216. Airlift Northwest helicopter N139AM  landed on the flightline to the right of the emergency vehicles, departed for Harborview with patient at 6:33 PM. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries is investigating the accident.

 

 

 

Boeing flightline.

 

Boeing flightline November 14, 2011.

Paine Field October 14

ZB168 United Airlines 787-9 N19951 was scheduled for a B1 flight today, there was a taxi test only.

ZA715 Royal Jordanian 787-8 JY-BAC departing on a C1 customer flight.

VT562 FedEx 767 N108FE departing on an engineering/paint ferry flight to Victorville.

Japan Airlines 787-8 JA838J was moved out of the 45-04 paint hangar to position E7 at the EMC.

747 Preservation Team heads back to the flightline after completing a maintenance engine run on N770BA at Kilo North.