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Boeing’s Next EcoDemonstrator Nearly Ready for Flight
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 will serve as the next ecoDemonstrator platform.
Boeing's latest ecoDemonstrator—a 737 Max 9 destined for Alaska Airlines—will carry 20 new technology elements program leaders plan to evaluate. (Image: Boeing)
Boeing's latest ecoDemonstrator—a 737 Max 9 destined for Alaska Airlines—will carry 20 new technology elements program leaders plan to evaluate. (Image: Boeing)

Boeing has scheduled the first test flight of its latest ecoDemonstrator—an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 carrying 20 new technology elements—for June 29. The airplane, expected to enter revenue service with Alaska Airlines dressed in a special ecoDemonstrator livery by the middle of next year, will carry out test flights using a 30 percent blend of sustainable aviation fuel derived from animal fats and greases until December 2.