BOEING HAS QUIETLY SCRAPPED ONE OF ITS EARLIEST-BUILT 777-9 AIRCRAFT As first reported by The Air Current, Boeing has dismantled WH007 (Line No. 1611), the seventh Boeing 777-9 ever built, after the aircraft sat undelivered at Everett since 2019. The jet, originally destined for Emirates as A6-EZT, even rolled... out with its folding wingtips painted in Emirates' livery. Instead of being delivered, it was reportedly disassembled in late summer 2025 due to the extensive and costly modifications required to bring it up to the final certified design standard. The aircraft later formed part of the billions of dollars in charges Boeing has accumulated on the delayed 777X program. Every aircraft built before certification must undergo "change incorporation"—a process of retrofitting already-assembled airframes to match the final certified configuration. Boeing has around 40 already-built 777X aircraft requiring these complex reworks, and reports indicate that some customers are reluctant to accept the earliest-build airframes because of the amount of modification involved. WH007 ultimately became the first known 777-9 to be scrapped before ever entering commercial service. 📹: SkyEye787show more

this is what happens when you build to an unfrozen design. boeing gambled on cert timing and lost - those early frames will always carry a stigma even after rework.

Images of WHOO7 in 2019

Sad, what the corporate idiots did to the brand.

McBoeing mgmt strikes again. Stockholder shaking my head. 100% loss to bottom line. good job.....

seems like a waste of a perfectly good airplane. Surely some customer could operate it as a cargo air delivery or even a fire bomber.

This is not news. Both Boeing and Airbus have previously scrapped early prototype builds because the effort to upgrade them to production spec cost too much and took too much labor away from normal production. Customers have been reluctant to accept them without major discounts.

Hmm, so not just WH001 - WH004.

In other words....way late and obsolete. An abject program fail.

You should have gifted it to President Trump

Boeing did the same on the 787 program.. They scrapped a number of the original airframes.. The Change Incorporation issue wasn’t the problem however.. The program had lost configuration control; they had no idea what happened during the build..

Should've bought the EU jet.

Why is WH007 so different from the others built after that it needed to be scrapped but the others can be retrofitted?

Bunch of them sitting at Paine Field with no engines.

Well at least that will reduce the current 37 languishing having never even had an engine hung from them ..using up Everett-Paine (PAE) many since 2019 …Project is doing well . Operation “Park and Forget”

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Still won't be delivered in 2027

This tough decision by Boeing reflects disciplined program management amid regulatory hurdles rather than fundamental flaws….

Hope you realise - Parts will be used

The pompous executives at Boeing criticized airbus for being somewhat late on A380, then had more serious delays on 787, followed yet more serious problems with 737 max and 777-8/9 isn’t out after 6 years late. Not flying on new Boeing if I can avoid it

So all this stuff has been priced in with the 5 billion charge they took a couple quarters ago??

Was interested until you said summer 2025, this is over a year ago, old news.

A lot of Dollar up in the air! @BloodyPolitics @brjc301

shouldn't have manufactured slop then

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That's what happens when you replace impecable engineering with 'shareholder value'.

More of the early birds will head to the scrapper. It will be cheaper.

At least executives are in Chicago now…. Very far from the engineers and assemble line!

Not even delivery but alr got 7 years Fuselage construction age. No airline is dum enough to accept that

That seems like....an expensive writeoff.

This highlights the hidden cost of long certification delays. Aircraft built before final certification can become "orphan" airframes if design changes accumulate faster than retrofits remain economically viable. Scrapping an undelivered widebody is rare, but it may still be cheaper than extensive structural, systems, wiring, and software modifications required to meet the final certified standard. The encouraging news is that Boeing reports the 777-9 certification campaign is now about 50% complete. Once certified, production should stabilize and future aircraft will roll off the line to the approved standard rather than requiring costly rework. Aviation is unforgiving: certification delays are measured not only in time, but in billions of dollars. © Grippan65Momi | TOPGUN0512 ✈️🌍

What was the total write off for all of these aircraft and can they recover any of this loss thru tax incentives?

It's a real shame about the dismantling! It's probably because of contractual restrictions preventing resale, or because such dismantling involves issues like adding or subtracting costs, making it the only option.

Gone through some/too much heavy airframe testing? @airmainengineer

Literalmente..... O apressado, come cru!