By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski WASHINGTON/CHICAGO,
By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Dec 1 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued its first airworthiness certificates for a Boeing 737 MAX constructed since March 2019, the company mentioned on Tuesday.
The FAA on Nov. 18 lifted a 20-month-old grounding order on the MAX after two deadly crashes in 5 months killed 346 individuals. The FAA is requiring a sequence of software program adjustments and new pilot coaching necessities earlier than planes can return to service.
Boeing BA.N has about 450 737 MAX airplanes which were constructed since 2019 and are awaiting approval by the FAA earlier than they are often delivered to airways. Boeing declined to touch upon the FAA approval.
“We count on to have enough variety of inspectors readily available to satisfy Boeing’s deliberate supply schedule for the foreseeable future. We’ll defer to Boeing to debate the corporate’s manufacturing and supply plans,” FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford mentioned.
The FAA individually final week authorized an American Airways AAL.O coaching plan for pilots to renew 737 MAX flights, the company and airline confirmed. That approval clears the best way for American to renew MAX flights beginning Dec. 29 as soon as it completes required assessments and software program upgrades to parked planes.
American plans to start with a single every day MAX flight from Miami to New York’s LaGuardia airport. That may mark the return of the MAX to U.S. industrial service.
Boeing’s backlog of planes is value about $16 billion, funding agency Jefferies estimates.
(Reporting by David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski, Enhancing by Franklin Paul and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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