Boeing firmed its schedule for the 787’s service ready, operation and validation (SROV) testing schedule today, readying ZA002 to fly to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and visit airports in southwestern Japan from July 4 to 8. The company has also ruled out a July first delivery to All Nippon Airways, placing the first handover in August or September.
Here we’re going to take one of the flight test airplanes. In fact, it’s Airplane number two…that airplane will go over to Japan and we’ll actually induct that airplane into ANA’s operating system.
We will fly the airplane with ANA pilots shoulder-to-shoulder, we’ll maintain the airplane with ANA maintainers shoulder-to-shoulder. It will be inducted into their maintenance systems. We’ll demonstrate the ability to dispatch the airplane. We’ll demonstrate the ability to maintain the airplane and we’ll simulate really off-nominal maintenance conditions, whether it’s a major structural failure, a major engine failure, to make sure that the partner team, led by Boeing and ANA, are ready to accept and operate the airplane within their systems.
And we get to a milestone that we call our Program Statement of Compliance or PSOC. This is where The Boeing Company states that the airplane is compliant with the Federal Aviation regulations and that we’ve submitted the last of the documentation necessary for certification. The FAA then reviews – does a final review of that documentation, issues the type certification and we move to delivering the first airplane to ANA in the coming quarter.
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