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Buying a 747 or 787 Dreamliner? You'll get it here
Boeing has broken ground on its Everett Delivery Center, a modern center where airlines picking up their new jumbo jets can come for the hand-off of their new plane.
The new Everett Delivery Center, where Boeing will hand off most of its new airplanes starting next year.
(Credit: Boeing)When your products cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, you probably want to give your customers the best possible buying experience.
Since the 1960s, airlines and others buying a brand-new Boeing airplane have picked up the 747, 757, 787 Dreamliner, and other models from the aviation giant's 60,000-square-foot Everett Delivery Center. But now, Boeing is building an all-new version of the facility (see video above), an 180,000-square-foot cathedral for picking up new airplanes that is expected to open some time next year.
When Boeing finishes building one of its well-known planes, it is towed to the delivery center, where crews work on final preparations like painting and fueling it up, running an engine test, a flight test, and customer acceptance. Boeing also uses the delivery center for a slew of other functions.
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Buyers of cars like BMW and Porsche should recognize the idea of a delivery center--after all, thousands of buyers of both of those companies' cars make it to their centers in Germany each year to pick up their brand-new vehicles. The idea here is much the same, except that the vehicle is a bit bigger and costs a bit more.
An artist's rendering of the east view of the Everett Delivery Center, from above.
(Credit: Boeing)
