Aerospace Diary

                                                          From left, Jack Jones, vice president and general manager of Boeing South Carolina; Air India Capt. A. S. Soman; Dinesh Keskar, senior vice president of Asia-Pacific and India Sales for Boeing Commercial Airplanes; and M. L. Franklin, Air India technical team leader, celebrate delivery of Air India’s first 787. Neelam Mathews Sept 7, 2012 After a lot of dilly-dallying, Air India on Thursday took  delivery of its first Boeing 787 (of 27 ordered) at Charleston, South Carolina facility of Boeing. The 787 will land in Delhi on Sept 8. It will then be ferried to Mumbai and the Air India crew is expected to return to Charleston for the airline’s second 787, likely to take around ten days. “The 787 will allow Air India to open new routes in a dynamic marketplace and prov...

Neelam Mathews April 27, 2012 Air India is the first customer of the first Boeing 787 assembled at the company’s Charleston facility to be rolled out on April 27. The Charleston second assembly building is spread across 642,720 sq. ft.Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Jim Albaugh  and Boeing’s South Carolina VP and GM Jack Jones will be present.