Boeing Announces Final Leg of 787 Dream Tour - Sydney/Darwin

[Lee G]

Boeing Announces Final Leg of 787 Dream Tour

EVERETT, Wash., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dream Tour will draw to a close with a seventh leg of international trips. During the tour, a refurbished flight test airplane has demonstrated the Dreamliner's capabilities to more than 59,000 guests with an estimated 6,000 more to see it during the upcoming stops.

On May 23, the airplane known as ZA003 will depart Boeing Field for Sydney, Australia. Airline officials, government representatives, Boeing employees, suppliers and members of the media will tour the airplane during this leg of the tour. Below are the landing dates for each stop during leg seven.

May 24 – Sydney, Australia
May 29 – Auckland, New Zealand
May 31 – Darwin, Australia
June 1 – Tashkent, Uzbekistan
June 3 – Casablanca, Morocco

Upon completion of the tour, ZA003 will go through a scheduled maintenance period and resume its duties in the 787 flight test fleet. While certification of the baseline 787 models has completed, additional testing is being conducted on airline-specific features, product enhancements, and technologies that will be introduced on the next member of the 787 family, the 787-9.

The Dream Tour airplane is outfitted with the 787's special cabin features including a welcoming entryway, dramatically larger dimmable windows, bigger bins and dynamic LED lighting. The airplane is configured with a luxurious business-class cabin, an overhead crew rest compartment and an economy class section.

Thousands of fans have followed the progress of the Dream Tour at www.newairplane.com/787/dreamtour, which will continue to be updated throughout the seventh leg of the tour.

[Dan Collins]

Sounds good - I should be able to see her this time if she stays in Sydney over the weekend

Dan

[Thomas Collins]

The aircraft will also come to Melbourne.

[Rory Delaney]

Anyone know where abouts it will be parked for the 4-5 days its here ?

[Nigel C]

I'd guess the Dom-6 apron, but then again it might be squeezed in the Jet Base or Dom-4. It all depends on what else is in and what space can be made available.

I'm sure all will be revealed by someone here when details are known closer to the date. This forum typically doesn't miss a beat on stuff like this!

[Oliver Gigacz]

Any source/info on her coming to Melbourne? I know one came to Melbourne last November.

[Grahame Hutchison]

I have just emailed my contact at Boeing to see if I can get any more details on the Sydney leg of the tour (and if there will be visits to other Captial Cities).

[Simon C]

Brisbane and Melbourne will also get a visit.

[Brock Little]

Let's hope it makes a stop at the Gold Coast on the way up to BNE!!

[Brock Little]

The airplane is also configured with 135 seats which will carry an exclusive group of passengers on a special ‘Dream Flight’ from Sydney to Brisbane and back on Saturday May 26.

http://www.ausbt.com.au/qantas-bring...alia-this-week

No times given as of yet.