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Boeing has completed join verification work on the last of 122 787s that had accumulated in its inventory, ensuring that each met its specifications for gaps created during the build process of the mostly composite jetliner, the plane maker confirmed.
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The last aircraft, a 787-10 first built in 2021, left Boeing’s Everett, Washington factory earlier this week, allowing the company to spool down a shadow factory that had it disassembling, inspecting and rebuilding the fuselage joins and other parts of each 787 in a process that took more hours to complete for each aircraft than to typically build the entire airplane.
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