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According to people familiar with the matter, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to announce during a visit to Washington state on Tuesday local time that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the Boeing 737 MAX 10.
Duffy is scheduled to appear Tuesday at Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington, where he will highlight the FAA airworthiness certification for the aircraft. This model is the larger version in Boeing's best-selling aircraft family and one that had previously been repeatedly delayed in certification.
In July of this year, Boeing added a new production line at the Everett factory to expand 737 MAX capacity; the aircraft is also currently undergoing final assembly at the Renton factory.
The FAA evaluated the aircraft last Friday through its "type certification committee," made up of members of the FAA's management team; this was the final step the agency took before making a final certification decision.
Airlines have ordered nearly 1,500 MAX 10 aircraft, accounting for about 30% of Boeing's current total unfilled 737 orders. The planemaker has already built several MAX 10s and is awaiting delivery.
This higher-capacity model is crucial to the growth plans of several airlines. Major customers for the MAX 10 include United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Ryanair, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines.
Since two fatal MAX 8 crashes in 2018 and 2019, Boeing has faced a stricter airworthiness certification process. In addition, after a very new MAX 9 operated by Alaska Airlines suffered an in-flight cabin panel blowout in January 2024, Boeing's production and quality systems also came under strict scrutiny.
Last week, Duffy met in Georgia with the chief executives of major aerospace companies including Boeing, RTX, Honeywell, GE Aerospace, Textron and Gulfstream to discuss how to improve the airworthiness certification process.
After more than eight years of review, the FAA approved the smaller 737 MAX 7 in August—an approval the industry had long awaited.
Before the program suffered delays, Boeing had planned to begin delivering the MAX 10 in 2020. An issue with the 737 MAX engine anti-icing system that emerged in 2023 further delayed the airworthiness certification process for both the MAX 7 and MAX 10.
In late September, Boeing disclosed a technical fault in the latest update to the 737 MAX navigation software, which had raised concerns that certification could be delayed further. However, the FAA determined that the issue did not pose a safety hazard and therefore did not make it a required fix for the aircraft to be certified.
Boeing is still pushing forward with airworthiness certification for the 777-9; this model is the largest among Boeing's aircraft in production, and its progress is already six years behind the original schedule. Boeing said it expects to complete certification and begin deliveries in 2027.
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