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Boeing Ended 2016 by Handing over 11 DreamLiners to the customers in December Month and achieved a Milestone of 500 DreamLiner Deliveries, The Fastest to reach 500 Deliveries among any wide body program in the Industry so far. A 787-8 handed over to Avianca in a ceremony at Everette marked the 500th DreamLiner delivery after the program has started in 2011.During this 5 years of time, Boeing Delivered 324 787-8's and 176 787-9's to around 40 Airlines. In 2016 Boeing handed over 137 Air frames to the customers in which 35 are of 787-8's and 102 of 787-9's. This again concludes the dominance and the popularity of 787-9 among the Airlines. Other watchable deliveries includes the last 787-8 for Royal Air maroc and the First 787-9 for Xiamen Airlines. Air Europa has received two 787-8's and British Airways received a 787-9. British airways wont take any 787-9 in 2017 and only a 787-8 will be delivered next year.
About the DreamLiner orders in 2016, Boeing received 74 Gross orders for DreamLiners. Qatar's DreamLiner order for 30 is the most interesting one and came at the right time.Also the Love towards the Dreamlines from Chinese customers continued as couple of Chinese customers join the Dreamliner club by order 787-9's.
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By looking at Pictures posted by Boeing, The First 787-10 is coming in Great shape at Charleston facility. Wing-Body join process looks completed and soon the engines will be installed. Roll out should be in the month of February and the First flight may expect in March.
