A Boeing Co. 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 reissue airworthiness certificates for its best-selling 737 Max and 787 Dreamliners, an authority that was stripped from the manufacturer after the 2018 and 2019 fatal crashes of the 737 Max.
The Federal Aviation Administration said last September that Boeing could issue tickets for its own planes before giving them to customers for only some of the Maxes and Dreamliners, alternating weeks between the FAA and Boeing doing that work.
“Over the past eight months, the FAA has seen comparable production quality results when Boeing issued airworthiness certificates and when the FAA issued them,” the agency said Friday. “Based on these results, the FAA determined that it can safely return this responsibility to Boeing.”
Boeing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The decision is a vote of confidence for Boeing, one of the largest U.S. exporters by value, by its regulator and the U.S. government after years of safety crises, including two crashes and a near-catastrophe in January 2024, when a door plug on one of the new 737 Max 9s exploded moments into the flight.
