BOEING EYES DELIVERY OF 787 DREAMLINER IN Q1 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 (Bernama) -- Boeing has target the delivery of its
787 Dreamliner in the first quarter of 2010, said the vice president and chief
project engineer, 787 programme, Mike Delaney.

He said roughly 4,000 deliverables are required to type certify the aircraft
and at this point, 60 percent of it had already been submitted to
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Civil aircraft require four separate FAA inspection and certification
processes to be operated -- the type certificate, production certificate,
airworthiness certificate and airline operating certificate.

"We have been working well with the FAA to submit these.The FAA on its part,
has been working diligently to provide the approval and feedback as part of the
process," he said during a briefing on the 787 Certification and Flight test via
tele-conferencing, Thursday.

According to Delaney, the planning and process of the test programme has
been undertaken in such a way that it enables the Boeing 787 team to "fly" the
aircraft into the second quarter of this year and deliver to the launch
customers in the first quarter of 2010," he said.

The test programme will also be concluded in the first quarter of 2010.

There are a total of 886 orders for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from 57
customers.

-- BERNAMA