Paine Field April 30

LOT Polish Airlines 787 SP-LRF at the Everett Delivery Center this afternoon.

Norwegian EI-LNG and British Airways G-ZBJG on the 40-51 apron.

Arke 787 PH-TFK in stall 120.

British Airways G-STBK and Aeroflot VQ-BQG at the fuel dock.

TAAG Angola Airlines D2-TEI in stall 212.

Boeing flightline.

 

N7874 and N789ZB on the Boeing Seattle flightline.

Paine Field July 14

Emirates A6-EGC delivery flight to Dubai.

N7874 has been on the flightline since arriving from Victorville on June 30, this afternoon it was flown to Boeing Field.

WE186 Emirates A6-EGD returning from a customer flight.

Paine Field June 30

N7874 arrived from Victorville and was parked in stall 101.

N1006F departing on a test flight.

Paine Field January 4

N7874 landed, taxied back to 16R, then departed to Boeing Field.

Line 18 and line 15 were moved from the flightline to the 40-51 apron.


VHF radio checks were conducted on 747-8F RC523 N6009F this afternoon.

On Friday, January 7, the 787 barrel on display at the Future of Flight Materials Zone will be moved to the Boeing 40-41 fatigue test building.

North side of the 40-41 building.

Aerial photo of the 40-41 building by Lee Karas. In the left foreground are the wings and fuselage of the static test 787 that was moved out of the 40-23 building on December 4.

787 Update December 23

787 number four N7874 is scheduled to leave Everett for Seattle early this afternoon.

Update 1:45 pm

BOEING 004 has just started engines, 12 on board. Should be taking off shortly. A KOMO News helicopter is overhead getting video.

Update 2:04 pm

After doing a high speed taxi on 16R, BOEING 004 taxied back to 16R and departed to the south, made a right turn and headed to Tatoosh at FL310.

N7874 ready to begin a high speed taxi. In the background, ZA001 N787BA is on the left and ZA102 N6066Z is on the right. N7874 has been at Paine Field since it was ferried from Boeing Field in Seattle on November 21. There are no production flights scheduled from December 24 until January 5 so this may be the last big thing of 2010.

ZA102 was moved from stall 102 to the 45-01 paint hangar in the evening.

The two 787s parked on the 40-51 apron were moved today. Line 15, seen here, was moved to stall 213 and line 18 was moved to the fuel dock.

N7874 First Flight

N7874 completes the first of two low speed taxi tests before first flight.

After performing two taxi tests, N7874 takes off from Runway 16R at 11:42 AM.

N249BA arrives from Charleston a few minutes before the 787 taxi test.

787 Update February 20

February 20 10:30 AM
Heather Ross has just started engines on 787 N7874, beginning a five hour gauntlet test on Dreamliner Four.



N747EX began a three hour engine idle run at 9:15 AM. A few stalls to the east, BOEING 522 N5017Q conducted VHF and HF radio checks with Boeing Everett.

Qatar Airways A7-BAH