By Dominic Gates – The first 787 Dreamliner assembled in South Carolina waited Friday (Apr 27, 2012) to roll out into the hot sunshine, “Made with pride in South Carolina” stenciled on its fuselage.
Boeing South Carolina, which employs around 6,000 people, has until now built 787 rear fuselages and mid-fuselages, then shipped them to Everett, Wash., for final assembly.
Now it can boast that it also assembles complete airplanes, one of just three elite widebody jet assembly sites in the world: Everett, Wash.; Toulouse, France; and now North Charleston, S.C. more> http://is.gd/7azKbk
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