Final parts arrive for first Charleston 787

Boeing's North Charleston, South Carolina final assembly line has received its first locally fabricated Boeing 787 aft fuselage, completing the final shipments for the first aircraft to be built at the company's new final assembly line, the company confirmed.
In an early morning ceremony on 22 August, staff from the 88-19 building where the aft fuselage is fabricated on Boeing's North Charleston campus, walked the completed aft section 47/48 to the newly built 88-30 final assembly building.
The arrival marks the final process towards beginning final assembly of Airplane 46, a 787 for Air India, and the first non-legacy Boeing jetliner to be completed outside the company's commercial base in the Pacific Northwest.
Major structural sections for the aircraft began arriving on 24 June with the shipment of the horizontal stabiliser from Alenia Aeronautica, followed by the wings from Nagoya, Japan on 6 July. The Spirit AeroSystems-built section 41 forward fuselage was delivered to Charleston on 21 July, followed by the centre fuselage, also assembled and integrated in South Carolina, on 11 August.
24/08/11 Jon Ostrower/Flightglobal

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