Mon, Mar 14, 2011
Livery To Be Added In Amarillo, TX
It's kind of the ultimate in paint and body work. Boeing has
selected Leading Edge Aviation Services to paint 787 Dreamliners
assembled at Boeing's new North Charleston, S.C., final assembly
and delivery facility.
Leading Edge will perform the work at its Amarillo, Texas
facility where other wide-body airplanes are painted. The company,
which specializes in commercial and military aircraft painting,
will apply final paint and customer livery to all 787 Dreamliners
delivered from the Boeing South Carolina facility. "Leading Edge is
a well-respected company when it comes to painting airplanes," said
David Palmer, director of Boeing's South Carolina Delivery Center.
"The company shares our values of quality, safety and excellence
and we look forward to our relationship with them."
"We began our search for a paint subcontractor soon after we
broke ground on our facility, knowing the experience and capacity
to paint large commercial airplanes didn't currently exist
geographically close by," said Marco Cavazzoni, vice president and
general manager, Boeing South Carolina Final Assembly and Delivery.
"Leading Edge brought immediate capability and capacity and is
located within a manageable flying distance from our new
facility."
As 787 Dreamliners complete final assembly and prepare for
delivery, the airplanes will make the 1,250-mile (1,212-kilometer)
flight from North Charleston to Amarillo to be painted. The
airplanes will then return to South Carolina for final delivery to
customers from around the world. "This paint process is the only
difference customers will experience in 787 Dreamliner deliveries
from South Carolina. Airplanes built and delivered from both
Everett, Wash., and North Charleston, S.C., will be identical, as
both sites use common quality management and production systems and
meet the same U.S. Federal Aviation Administration requirements,"
said Cavazzoni.
Production in the new South Carolina 787 Dreamliner facility is
on schedule to begin mid-2011, with first delivery scheduled for
2012.
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