{"id":386897,"date":"2026-03-15T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-boeing-787-inspections-shim-gap-errors\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:05:37","slug":"faa-to-mandate-boeing-787-inspections-following-shim-gap-manufacturing-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=386897","title":{"rendered":"FAA To Mandate Boeing 787 Inspections Following &#8216;Shim Gap&#8217; Manufacturing Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Federal Aviation Administration<\/span><\/span> is to mandate an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/03\/13\/2026-05007\/airworthiness-directives-the-boeing-company-airplanes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >airworthiness directive<\/a> for specific models of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525580\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 787<\/span><\/span> Dreamliner, following an investigation that concluded that the shim gaps have exceeded engineering allowances. It affects 17 US-registered 787s, rather than the full US inventory, depending on their date of manufacture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mandate will relate to 17 specific US registered aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,11084,398,995,420,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airworthinessdirective","category-boeing","category-boeing-787","category-faa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386898,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386897\/revisions\/386898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}