Boeing 737 MAX is flying high

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 has passed high altitude tests.

A test aircraft for the new single-aisle plane hit the milestone in La Paz, Bolivia, where the airport is at about 13,300 feet above sea level.

“The engines and other systems performed well, as expected, under extreme conditions. That’s exactly what we wanted to see,” Keith Leverkuhn, Boeing Commercial Airplanes vice president and 737 MAX program general manager, said in a press release from the company.

737 MAX flight testing is on track with three airplanes having tallied more than 100 flights so far. The fourth and final test plane is expected to make its first flight in the next few weeks.

The program is on track to deliver the first plane in the third quarter of 2017, the company said in the release.

Dan Catchpole: 425-339-3454; dcatchpole@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @dcatchpole.

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