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A Boeing Dreamlifter cargo jet, with a cargo hold among the largest by volume, accidentally landed at the wrong airport in Kansas Wednesday night, and was unable to take off due to the short runway. According to KWCH News, this type of plane requires 9,200 feet to take off whereas the runway at the airport is only 6,101 feet.

Following up on Thursday's short report that Oregon's Evergreen International Airlines had sued Boeing over the cancellation of its contract to operate the Dreamlifter, here are some details from the complaint. "Boeing committed bad faith and breached its contractual promises to conduct its business fairly, impartially and in an ethical and proper manner," Evergreen alleged in the complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. "Boeing's bad faith and breach of contract have caused lost profits to Evergreen in excess of $175 million."

EVERETT, June 04, 2007 -- The Boeing Dreamlifter, the specially modified 747-400 used to transport the major assemblies of the all-new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, was granted type certification on Saturday, June 2, from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The certification recognizes that the Dreamlifter has successfully passed all of the stringent testing and safety requirements required by the FAA. The Dreamlifter does not need to be certified by other regulatory agencies. "This certification reflects not only the safety and reliability of the Dreamlifter but also its remarkable performance," said Scott Strode, 787 vice president of Airplane Definition and Production....

Mammoth Cargo Plane Key to Global Supply Chain for 787 EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- A gigantic, humpback-shaped cargo plane has been turning heads in the skies over the Seattle area for months as it's undergone hundreds of hours of flight tests. It's about to become a more common sight in a lot more places, as it begins carrying large chunks of Boeing Co.'s new 787 Dreamliner from factories in Japan and Italy, South Carolina and Kansas to the company's widebody assembly plant here. It's called the Dreamlifter -- a lofty name for a jet whose bulbous fuselage has earned...

Systems not installed. Workmanship issues with the horizontal stabilizer. Temporary fasteners that will have to be replaced. That's only some of what 787 workers at The Boeing Co.'s Everett plant face as the mad dash begins to get the first Dreamliner assembled and out the factory door by July 8. Judging by what one source described -- and has personally seen -- it's a good thing Boeing is prepared for the extra work that it will take to get that first plane finished on time. Boeing executives have stressed that the company has contingency plans to deal with any number...

Piece by very large piece, Boeing's 787 is arriving at Boeing's Everett plant. The Large Cargo Freighter known as the Dreamlifter has delivered nearly all the major 787 sections. Final assembly of the first plane will begin soon, once the wings come from Japan and the rest of the fuselage arrives from South Carolina. The latest Dreamlifter shipment came early Friday morning. The modified 747-400 carried the forward fuselage manufactured in Wichita, Kan., and the two aft fuselage sections manufactured by Vought in South Carolina. The first 787 special delivery was April 24, when the Large Cargo Freighter arrived in...

Boeing's Large Cargo Freighter known as the Dreamlifter made its inaugural delivery to Everett Tuesday evening. Flying from Italy with the first horizontal stabilizer for the 787 in its huge belly, the Dreamlifter landed at Paine Field about 6:30 p.m., and over the next few hours Boeing workers carefully removed the precious cargo. Final assembly at the Everett plant of the first 787 will start next month once all the major 787 sections have arrived via the Dreamlifter. Check out the photo gallery of this historic first delivery by P-I photographer Joshua Trujillo.

If you wanted some further visual evidence that we’re getting close to our first 787 Dreamliner, you need only take a look at some remarkable photos out of Italy. Alenia Aeronautica delivered the first fuselage sections of the Dreamliner at the end of last week. These two composite center sections (known as sections 44 and 46) were manufactured at Alenia’s 787 facility in Grottaglie.

EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 12, 2007 -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) is showing steady progress toward building the first 787 Dreamliner with the rollout of its second specially-modified freighter and a successful first pickup of 787 parts from Japan. The load consists of section 43, a forward fuselage section made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and section 11/45, the center wheel well and center wing tank, made by KHI and Fuji Heavy Industries and joined at FHI. These were loaded onto the 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter -- now known as the Dreamlifter -- earlier today at Centrair Airport in Nagoya. The large composite...