Bjorn’s Corner: Faster aircraft development. Part 3.

August 15, 2025, ©. Leeham News: We do a series about recent ideas on how the long development times for large airliners can be shortened. New project talks about cutting development time and reaching certification and production faster… Read More

Boeing’s Ortberg’s first year as CEO: progress, but lots remaining to do

By Scott Hamilton Analysis Aug. 8, 2025, © Leeham News: Today is the one-year anniversary of Kelly Ortberg stepping into what is probably the most challenging career move of his professional life: becoming the chief executive officer of… Read More

US House Panel approves jump in FAA budget

AIN’s Oshkosh Air Venture show news is here.   House Panel Approves Budget Jump for FAA in 2026 House bill to provide a $23.3 billion budget for FAA in 2026 By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine… Read More

Boeing’s 737 North Line and the Everett factory: in transition now

Open to all Readers By Scott Hamilton  June 9, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing announced the addition of a fourth 737 production line in 2023 as the last 747 rolled out of the Everett (WA) widebody factory where… Read More

Boeing CEO: Lessons learned are key to certification of 737-7/10 and 777X

By Karl Sinclair Analysis June 2, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg believes that lessons learned from the 737 MAX crisis and subsequent in-depth oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are key to certifying the… Read More

Boeing’s 2025 annual safety report due this month

By Scott Hamilton May 20, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing will release its fourth annual safety report this month. The first was in 2022. The document is the Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Report (CASO Report). Previous CASO reports… Read More

Ortberg reaffirms goal of Boeing 777X certification at first appearance at bank’s investors’ conference

By Scott Hamilton Feb. 20, 2025, © Leeham News: Boeing hopes to certify its largest aircraft, the 777-9, late this year or early next year so that it can finally begin delivery of the 425-seat aircraft. Delivery was… Read More

FAA understaffing affects air operations oversight; NTSB falls short, too

Subscription Required By Colleen Mondor Commentary Jan. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: When discussing the topic of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) staffing, it is traditionally Air Traffic Controllers that command media attention. Even when problems surfaced after the… Read More

Five years to produce 737s at 50/mo, consultancy predicts

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 31, 2024, © Leeham News: When Boeing held its first investors day since 2018 in November 2022, then-CEO David Calhoun projected that the production rate for the 737 would be 50/mo sometime… Read More

Calhoun’s biggest failure at Boeing: fixing safety

By Scott Hamilton Commentary Aug. 8, 2024, © Leeham News: Kelly Ortberg becomes president and chief executive officer of The Boeing Co. today. He replaces David Calhoun, who was named to the position in January 2020. Calhoun replaced… Read More