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2026-05-21 04:20 UTC
View of Boeing Portland Paint Hangar from the Columbia River levee bike path: two 787-9 Dreamliners parked in front of the hangar, one newly-painted for Lufthansa and one behind it just arrived in LOT Polish Airlines livery but will be repainted for Lufthansa.
On the far right, a 737 MAX9 missing a door plug is N704AL from Alaska 1282 blowout. It has (so far) never left PDX since that day. Alaska returned it to Boeing ownership in exchange for a MAX10 order. #KPDX #aviation #travel #avgeek
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@ikluft@avgeek.social 2026-06-16 23:25
That's different. I was at PDX getting ready to take pictures of BOE446, a brand new 737 MAX8 on that plane's first flight ("B1" flight), flying from RNT (737 factory) to PDX apparently for paint. Then it diverted to BFI (Boeing's flight test base). It looks like the test pilots found something wrong that needed work. The Boeing crew transport PC-12 N21AU was already at PDX waiting to fly the test pilots home. It departed shortly after the diversion. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE446/history/20260616/2000Z/KRNT/KPDX #aviation #avgeek