Boeing 767-400ER Makes Its First Flight at Everett

• Boeing 767 chief pilot Buzz Nelson and first officer John Cashman, the flight-crew-operations director, flew VQ001 from Paine Field west down the Strait of Juan de Fuca, landing at Boeing Field after 5 hours 5 minutes^[1][5]
• Program manager Pat Shanahan called it "as good as it gets"; Boeing planned a six-and-a-half-month, roughly 800-flight-hour test campaign for three aircraft, but the program ended up at 1,150 flight hours after a 40-day strike and a roll-off fix^[1][3]
• The 767-400ER was launched in April 1997 with a 21-aircraft order from Delta (orders totalled 54 by first flight) and rolled out in August 1999^[1]
• FAA certification and 180-minute ETOPS followed on 20 July 2000, and Boeing said testing showed the jet burned less fuel and needed less runway than first expected^[2][3]
• Flight International's pilot found it "stable, with good natural damping" and noted vortillons had been fitted after certification flying found the "dirty" stall marginal^[4]

Notable features

• 767-400ER: length 201 ft 4 in (61.37 m), wingspan 170 ft 4 in (51.92 m) with raked wingtips, MTOW 450,000 lb (204.1 t)^[1]
• Seats 245 in three classes or 304 in two classes (Boeing's airport-planning layout shows 296), up to 15 percent more than the 767-300ER; 777-style flight deck^[1][4]
• Range about 5,625 nmi (10,415 km); General Electric CF6-80C2B8F engines of 60,600 lbf; takeoff field length about 10,300 ft at maximum weight, sea level, standard day (read from graph)^[1]