Boeing's New 787 Dreamliner Won FAA Approval Before Shutdown Hit
A Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner test plane at Le Bourget on June 18, 2017.
Photographer: Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images
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Boeing Co.’s newest and largest 787 Dreamliner got the federal approval it needs to fly commercially, winning authorization before the government shutdown Friday.
The certification concludes a flight-test program that began last March for the first of the 787-10 carbon-fiber jets to be assembled solely at Boeing’s South Carolina factory, the Chicago-based planemaker said Monday.