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Boeing 7E7 Dreamliner Approved for Offer to Airlines
Significant customer interest expressed in innovative new airplane
Everett, Wash., selected as final assembly site
SEATTLE, Dec. 16, 2003 -- The Boeing [NYSE: BA] Board of Directors has given the company's Commercial Airplanes unit the go-ahead to begin offering
for sale the new 7E7 Dreamliner passenger airplane.
Boeing can now make sales proposals to airlines around the world. The company expects those sales proposals to result in firm customer commitments and
a production go-ahead, or formal launch, in 2004.