The fourth Boeing 777X test plane is expected to fly soon

Boeing 777X fourth must fly soon, as the company activates the plane structure, known as the WH0004, which is registered as N779xz, on April 13.

Other 777-9 aircraft, which are the WH001, WH002 and WH003, have been fly an activity since January after Boeing resumed the certificate issuance campaign.

WH0004 reactivation

The company reactivated WH004, registered with the name N779xz, on April 13. This has been marked before Boeing 777x An account on X -Formerly known as Twitter – no responsible Boeing

The account that follows production and other issues related to the latest plane plane from the plane maker.

according to Flightradar24 Records, the plane’s online structure was transferred at Seattle Bayne Field Airport (PAE), previously known as Paine Field, with Calling ‘Boe777 “at about 09:49 local time (UTC -7).

While the Test tires have been 777-9 flying actively over the past four years, the N779xz/WH004 has been sitting in Seattle Field Packet since November 2021, when it was running a flight from King’s International County Airport (BFI), also known as Boeing Field. The plane flew to the other airport inside the Seattle area, where it includes the Ivere Vite production site, where the aircraft maker collects a wide plane of body systems.

the next The end of the production of 747-8 in January 2023Boeing revealed plans to open a fourth 737 Max

The production line in Evertt facilities, which will lose another Commercial aircraft programand The construction of 767f will continue, within a few years (KC-46, based on 767, there). In January 2024, several days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

On the basis of a maximum of 737, the agency made it clear that it will not agree to expand production or additional production lines until the quality of the Boeing plane improves, He repeated the feelings by the officials of the current administration in the Ministry of Transport (DOT) and FAA.

777x test trips

However, Boeing has resumed a 777-9 test in January after a problem with the plane’s bonds mainly for gender certificate efforts, Which advanced to the stage of inspection (TIA)And he continued to apply with the certificate program.

Flightradar24 records showed that N779XW, also known as Wh001, has operated her first flight on January 23, where she was flying from Paine Field to Musa Grant International Airport (MWH), while N779xx, also known as Wh002, moved to the sky for the first time since August 2024 on February 5, and it flies from a province King/Boeing to Lakes.

N779XY, also known as the WH003, which was established since September 2024 and was the first plane linking the engine paid links, which is a structural component between the engine and the aircraft structure, resumed flights on January 16. Her last trip Time to write this report It was April 11, as was N779xW and N779xx’s, which was also test flights on the same day.

Certificate soon

While Boeing will unveil the results of the first quarter on April 23, when the aircraft maker has already revealed that it had provided 130 commercial aircraft during the quarter, during the Bank of America’s Industrial Conference on March 19, Brian West, CEO and chief financial official in Boeing, revealed that there were no changes in the Augusa previously.

During the conference, West updated that in the two weeks before the event, FAA agreed to the second phase of the flight test of 777-9, which is when the certificate focuses on “Air dynamics, brakes, engine.” At that time, it was 777-9 3700 hours flight test, West said.

On January 28, in the company’s 2024 profit call, Kelly Ordrag, President and CEO (CEO) in Boeing, He stressed that the schedule of 777x, 737 Max 7, and 737 Max 10 did not change, as the plane maker aims to ratify the trio in 2025 and introduce the first 777-9 to Lufthansa.