Boeing Lining Up Buyers for Early Overweight Dreamliners
Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners sit on the tarmac at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, on Feb. 14, 2014. Unloading the 787s would be a boost for Boeing after the aircraft sat outside the company’s largest Seattle-area factory for about five years.
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Boeing Co. has lined up buyers for 10 of the early, overweight 787 Dreamliners whose years in storage made them emblems of the jet’s factory woes and a drag on profit, people with knowledge of the plans said.
The planes, dubbed “terrible teens” for their assembly struggles and their places near the start of the production run, have an assessed value of roughly $1 billion, or less than half the catalog price. The original customers balked because the aircraft were too heavy, limiting their range.