Boeing Opens South Carolina Delivery Center

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – November 11, 2011 – Boeing (NYSE: BA) marked the opening of its new South CarolinaDelivery Center at a ribbon cutting ceremony in NorthCharleston.  Elected officials and representatives from communityand business groups, suppliers and subcontractors joined more than 500 Boeingemployees to commemorate the occasion.

In honor of Veterans Day, Boeing South Carolinapaid tribute to veteran teammates by selecting men and women who served in thearmed forces from various site operations to assist in cutting the ribbon onstage.

Today, we celebrate the opening of the Boeing South Carolina Delivery Centerand look forward to delivering our first SouthCarolina-built 787s in 2012, said JackJones, vice president and general manager of Boeing South Carolina.  Customers will come from around the world to take delivery of their 787and will see the great pride and talent of our Boeing South Carolinateammates.

Boeing’s Site Services Group, CJMW Architecture and the KRB Building Groupwere recognized at the ceremony for bringing construction of the building tocompletion on schedule. In addition, the KBR Building Group worked more than 4.7million labor-hours on the Boeing South Carolina site without a lost timeincident.

Thank you to CJMW, KBR/Turner JV and SSG for their hard work in getting thisbuilding open and ready for us to start delivering airplanes, said Marco Cavazzoni, vice president and general manager,Final Assembly & Delivery, Boeing South Carolina. We would not be heretoday without their dedication. I’d also like to thank our state and localgovernment and industry partners for also making today possible. Today’s ribboncutting represents the last major piece of construction on our new Boeing SouthCarolina campus.

The 58,000 square foot facility includes three floors of offices, conferencerooms and food operations. On the second floor, two passenger boarding bridgesprovide airplane access to customers, the first passenger boarding bridges to beused at a Boeing Delivery Center.

More than 600 tons of steel, 2,800 cubic yards of concrete, 42,000square feet of exterior metal panels and 14,000 square feet of glass were usedin the building’s construction. The flight line has approximately 115,000 cubicyards of concrete with seven flight stalls serving as the working offices forflight service technicians before the delivery of the 787.

The South Carolina Final Assembly and Delivery facility will ramp up toproduce three 787 Dreamliners per month by the end of 2013.