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On 31 August 1978 Boeing, Rolls-Royce, British Airways and Eastern Air Lines announced that the 757 would go ahead, with 40 orders worth more than US$1 billion. The jet was sealed with a handshake between Eastern's Frank Borman and Boeing's Tex Boullioun during a car ride at Miami airport.

On 19 February 1982 Boeing's prototype 757-200, N757A, took off from Renton and landed at Paine Field after 2 hours 31 minutes, with an air restart of the number 2 engine on the way. It had been rolled out on 13 January 1982.

The FAA approved the Boeing 757-200 on 21 December 1982 after an engine-icing problem found in testing pushed the schedule back a month. Eastern Air Lines took its first 757 the next day and started service on 1 January 1983.

The stretched Boeing 757-300 took off from Renton at 10:08 a.m. PDT on 2 August 1998 and flew for 2 hours 25 minutes, with the flight webcast live. Launch customer Condor had ordered 12 in September 1996.

Boeing delivered the 1,050th and last 757, a 757-200 for Shanghai Airlines, on 27 April 2005, ending a 23-year run. The jet, the first 757 delivered as a Chapter 4 low-noise airplane, had been celebrated at a Renton ceremony in October 2004.