
Boeing [BA] team employees laid the keel beam for the first of four New Zealand P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft, the company said on March 17. This keeling occurred at Spirit AeroSystems facility in Wichita, Kan., where all Boeing 737 fuselages, nacelles and pylons are designed and built. The P-8A is derived from a modified 737 aircraft. Boeing said while an aircraft keel runs the length of the fuselage belly, the P-8 keel beam differs from the regular 737 keel beam…