Boeing Co.’s 737 Max aircraft at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, U.S., Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025.
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The US government said on Friday: boeing can once again issue airworthiness certificates for its best-selling 737 Max aircraft and 787 Dreamliner, but that authority was stripped from the manufacturer following fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced last September that Boeing could ticket some Max and Dreamliner planes before handing them over to customers, and that the FAA and Boeing would alternate weeks of doing so.
“Over the past eight months, the FAA has observed comparable production quality results when Boeing issues certificates of airworthiness and when the FAA issues certificates of airworthiness,” the agency announced Friday. “Based on these results, the FAA has determined that this responsibility can be safely transferred back to Boeing.”
“Under the supervision of the FAA, we remain committed to producing safe, high-quality commercial aircraft that meet all airworthiness certification requirements,” the company said in a statement.
The decision was a vote of confidence from regulators and the U.S. government for Boeing, one of the nation’s largest exporters by value, after years of safety crises, including two crashes and a near-disaster in January 2024 when a door plug blew off the new 737 Max 9 shortly after it took flight.
