Boeing has released more details of its $1 billion expansion in South Carolina, announcing it has acquired more land and will open a painting facility in the state.

Robots are painting half of all the wings for Boeing’s 777 jetliner, and will take over painting the other half this summer.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Boeing has released more details of its $1 billion expansion in South Carolina, announcing it has acquired more land and will open a painting facility in the state.

Boeing paints planes on three shifts during the day, a 24-hour operation. Boeing has four painting hangars, including one for 777 and 777X jets. How long does it take to paint an airplane?

To give it that Navy look, it spends several days in the Boeing paint shop. Watch the video to see what the paint shop supervisor compares the painting process to.

In February last year, a new Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max plane was on one of its first flights when an automated stabilizing system appeared to malfunction, forcing the pilots to make an ...

Boeing said Thursday that it has outsourced the painting of the Dreamliners that will be built in South Carolina to a Texas firm.

EVERETT — The Boeing Co. will indeed construct a 737 completion center in China, in cooperation with that country’s jetliner manufacturer, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC ...

Boeing plans to test whether new non-stick aircraft coatings may provide a simple solution to an age-old aviation hazard: icing. The paints are designed to cause ice to slide harmlessly off a ...

Boeing blames ultraviolet radiation exposure for causing paint to peel on some of the wings and horizontal stabilizers of its 787 Dreamliner.

Boeing has released more details of its $1 billion expansion in South Carolina, announcing it has acquired more land and will open a painting facility in the state. The aeronautics company ...

First Posted: 12/13/2013 (AP) Boeing has released more details of its $1 billion expansion in South Carolina, announcing it has acquired more land and will open a painting facility in the state ...