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Boeing unveiled the first 787-8 to 15,000 guests at its Everett factory on 8 July 2007, with 677 orders from 47 airlines already booked. The airplane had no major systems installed yet, and the program slipped by more than two years before it first flew.

Boeing delivered the first 777 Freighter to launch customer Air France Cargo at a ceremony near Paine Field on 19 February 2009, days after FAA and EASA certification.

Boeing's 747-8 Freighter, the largest airplane the company had built, flew for the first time from Paine Field on 8 February 2010, a year later than planned. The 3 hour 39 minute flight began a test program of more than 1,600 flight hours.

The FAA and EASA certified the Rolls-Royce-powered 787-8 on 26 August 2011 at a ceremony in Everett, clearing the way for first delivery. Certification came nearly two years after first flight.

Boeing's board approved the re-engined 737, named the 737 MAX, on August 30, 2011, based on commitments for 496 airplanes from five airlines, with LEAP-1B engines and deliveries to begin in 2017.

Boeing and ANA signed the papers on 25 September 2011 completing delivery of the first 787, more than three years after the 2008 start of deliveries Boeing announced at launch. ANA flew it home to Tokyo on 27 September and began passenger service on 26 October.

Boeing handed over the first 747-8 Intercontinental delivered to an airline, D-ABYA for Lufthansa, in Everett on 25 April 2012. The airplane flew to Frankfurt on 1 May and began revenue flights to Washington Dulles on 1 June.

On 16 January 2013 the FAA ordered U.S.-registered 787s to stop flying after battery failures on a Japan Airlines jet in Boston and an ANA jet in Japan. It was the first time the FAA had grounded an airliner type since 1979.

Three months after the grounding, the FAA on 19 April 2013 approved Boeing's redesigned 787 battery system, including a new steel enclosure, clearing the fleet to return to service once retrofitted. Ethiopian Airlines flew the first 787 passenger service on 27 April.

The stretched 787-9 flew for the first time on 17 September 2013, a 5-hour, 16-minute flight from Paine Field to Boeing Field. Boeing called it a no-squawk flight and targeted certification and first delivery for mid-2014.

Boeing launched the 777X program on 17 November 2013 at the Dubai Airshow with orders and commitments for 259 aircraft from Emirates, Lufthansa, Qatar Airways and Etihad worth more than US$95 billion at list prices.

Boeing celebrated the first 787-9 delivery with launch customer Air New Zealand at Everett on 9 July 2014, handing over a black-liveried jet, the first of 10 on order. Contract signing was on 30 June.

The first 737 MAX 8 took off from Renton on January 29, 2016 and landed at Boeing Field after a two-hour, 47-minute flight, starting flight testing of the re-engined 737 family on schedule.

The longest 787, the 787-10, first flew on 31 March 2017 from Boeing South Carolina, a flight of four hours and 58 minutes. It is the first Boeing airliner assembled only at the Charleston plant.

Boeing handed the first 737 MAX 8 to Malindo Air on May 16, 2017, more than a year after first flight, and the Malaysian carrier flew the world's first MAX passenger service six days later.

Boeing delivered the first 787-10 to launch customer Singapore Airlines at North Charleston on 25 March 2018, with 3,000 people at the ceremony. Singapore Airlines had ordered 49 of the type and became the first group to operate all three Dreamliner variants.

The FAA issued an Emergency Order of Prohibition on March 13, 2019 grounding the 737 MAX 8 and 9 three days after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed, joining regulators worldwide in a 20-month grounding.

The first Boeing 777-9, test airplane WH001, took off from Paine Field at 10:09 a.m. on 25 January 2020 and landed at Boeing Field after a 3 hour 51 minute flight.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson signed an order on November 18, 2020 rescinding the 737 MAX grounding and published an airworthiness directive requiring the design changes before the 737-8 and 737-9 could carry passengers again.

The largest 737 MAX, the 737-10, took off from Renton at 10:07 a.m. on June 18, 2021 and landed at Boeing Field after about two and a half hours, starting a test program Boeing then expected to end in 2023.

Boeing delivered the last 747, a 747-8 Freighter for Atlas Air, in Everett on 31 January 2023 before thousands of employees and guests. It was the 1,574th 747 built, ending more than half a century of production.

Boeing's 13 October 2026 delivery release counts 22 787s delivered in the third quarter and 62 so far this year, and its second-quarter filing says the line had stabilized at eight a month. Boeing plans to move to 10 a month at its South Carolina expansion.

The FAA certified the Boeing 737 MAX 10, the largest and last member of the 737 MAX family, on October 20, 2026, issuing an amended type certificate and clearing Boeing to begin deliveries with WestJet first.

A newly opened ramen restaurant in Tomioka, Teine-ku. The operator confirms its October 22 opening and service from 11:00 to 22:00, with last orders at 21:30. The photo shows the completed Sapporo storefront. Sapporo menu items and prices remain unverified.

An announced ten-seat sushi restaurant on the fifth floor of Koshido 3・3 Building, scheduled to open November 21. Its published ¥16,000 Nagi course includes Hokkaido seafood and nigiri; a private room carries a separate ¥2,000 charge per room. Card photo shows the host building, not a completed dining room.

As of 21 October 2026 the 777-9 is still in FAA type-certification testing: ETOPS flight-test approval is on hold over a GE9X engine mid-seal issue, and the FAA Administrator has said he hopes certification comes early in 2027.

As launch customer, WestJet expects to take the first Boeing 737-10 in early 2027 once Transport Canada and EASA validate the FAA certification, which Boeing's Mike Sinnett put at "probably a couple months" away.