Boeing in the UAE the Boeing Company Shares a Long-Standing Relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

BUILDING THE FUTURE TOGETHER Boeing in the UAE The Boeing Company shares a long-standing relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). From air transport and aviation support services to defense and satellite systems, Boeing has worked closely with UAE civil and defense authorities to achieve the country’s objectives and ambitions. The UAE has emerged as a global air transport hub, thanks to its unique geographical position and a strategically planned approach to growing its aviation sector. Over the past few years, its airlines have grown in both influence and reach. They currently operate scheduled passenger and cargo flights to more than 160 destinations on six continents.

OUR COMMITMENT AND PARTNERSHIP 1978 740 150 First Boeing airplane Boeing airplanes Boeing 777s in the delivered to the UAE ordered by UAE Emirates fleet (VIP airplane to Dubai customers to date Amiri fleet)

70 3 149 787s ordered by Boeing 702 Boeing employees Etihad Airways—the satellites operated across the UAE largest 787 customer by Thuraya Satellite in the Middle East Telecommunications

INVESTMENTS Boeing investments in the UAE have helped grow the local aerospace sector, creating jobs and driving innovation for mutual benefit. 2 4 Tier 1 suppliers, R&D projects in the STRATA and Edge UAE with STRATA, Precision Industries (EPI) EPI, SBRC and Emirates Airlines

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Boeing is proud to support science education and leadership training in the UAE through work with community partners. 4 3 $2.9M nonprofit and Boeing internship and in charitable giving university partners apprenticeship programs to university and in the UAE for UAE youth nonprofit partners since 2007

Contact: Dana Salloum, +971-4-2134747, [email protected] @BoeingMidEast BOEING IN THE UAE A HISTORY OF Boeing Commercial Airplanes Organisation Approval (DOA) certifications PARTNERSHIP from the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority Boeing airline customers in the country and the European Aviation Safety Agency. include Emirates, Etihad Airways and flydubai as well as aircraft lessors Dubai Aerospace In the UAE, Boeing Global Services Enterprise and Novus Aviation Capital. provides performance-based logistics sustainment support of the UAE’s AH-64D Emirates is currently the world’s largest 777 Apache helicopters. 1978 operator, with 150 of the aircraft in its fleet. For the UAE’s C-17 fleet, Boeing Boeing delivers first VIP airplane to The airline is also a launch customer for the Dubai Amiri fleet 777X, with orders for 126 aircraft. In 2019, also provides sustainment and heavy the airline also announced an order for 30 maintenance, as well as a C-17 aircrew 787 Dreamliners. training center. Etihad Airways is Boeing’s largest 787 customer in the Middle East with a total order Partnerships 1998 of 70 Dreamliners. The airline also operates In 2012, Boeing and Mubadala announced Boeing Service Center opens in Dubai 777 aircraft and is one of the launch customers a 10-year contract for Strata Manufacturing for the 777X, with 25 on order. In November (STRATA) to produce ribs for the empennage 2019, Boeing and Etihad signed a strategic of the 777 aircraft and vertical fin ribs for the partnership centered on the Boeing 787 787. In 2016, the companies announced that ecoDemonstrator, to focus on innovation, STRATA would expand its work statement for 2007 continuous improvement of cost efficiency and Boeing as a supplier of the 787 vertical fin. Jeppesen establishes impact of aviation on the environment. In December 2020, following the UAE’s 49th Middle East hub in Dubai flydubai became the region’s largest customer National Day, Strata successfully delivered for the 737-800 when it placed an order for its first 787 vertical fin shipset to Boeing. 50 of the airplanes in 2008. In 2013, flydubai Additionally, Boeing agreed to source pre- ordered 75 737 MAXs, the first of which was impregnated composite materials for the new delivered in 2017. That same year, flydubai 777X from a new, UAE-based joint venture struck another landmark agreement with created by Mubadala and Solvay, making 2010 Boeing for up to 225 737 MAXs, representing Boeing its first customer. SBRC established the largest-ever single-aisle jet order from a Boeing’s partnership with the Tawazun Middle East carrier. Economic Council has enabled key industrial initiatives since 2013. In 2015, Edge Precision Boeing Defense, Industries (EPI), an Edge Group subsidiary, Space & Security and Boeing announced the first award of 2013 complex metallic machined parts for Boeing Historic order for 259 777Xs, worth more Defense, Space & Security products provided aircraft to be built at EPI. This partnership than $95 billion, placed at Dubai Airshow to the UAE include the AH-64 Apache and led to another commitment between CH-47 Chinook helicopters. In addition, Tawazun Economic Council and Boeing, flydubai orders 75 737 MAXs Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications which expands the UAE’s industrial base by operates three Boeing 702 satellites. The enabling advanced materials manufacturing. UAE also operates eight C-17 Globemaster III In 2019, Tawazun, Boeing and TPI celebrated heavy-lift aircraft. the opening of TPI’s all-new aerospace surface treatment facility in Abu Dhabi. 2014 Boeing Global Services Boeing has also worked with the Masdar STRATA delivers first 777 empennage rib shipset to Emirates From its Dubai distribution facility, Boeing Institute, Etihad Airways and UOP to provides sales and customer service support establish the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Boeing delivers Etihad’s first 787-9 to the commercial airline industry, military Consortium (SBRC), a partnership to develop customers and business aviation in the wider sustainable, available biofuel in the UAE. region. Boeing and its research partners, which include Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Jeppesen, a Boeing company, is the world’s Refining, GE, Bauer Resources and Safran, leading provider of information management, made breakthroughs and found that 2015 operational efficiency, optimization and seawater-fed desert plants, grown in Abu STRATA’s first shipset of 787 vertical fin ribs disruption management tools for pilots and Dhabi, produce biofuel more efficiently than installed in a 787-9 delivered to Etihad Airways aircraft operators. other well-known feedstocks. In January Boeing also provides comprehensive 2019, Etihad flew the first commercial flight engineering and technical data solutions. using sustainable fuel. The company holds aircraft interiors Design 2017 Flydubai orders 225 737 MAXs IN-COUNTRY FLEETS Tawazun Economic Council and Boeing sign Commercial Defense Services agreement enabling expansion of the UAE’s advanced material manufacturing industry

2019 Emirates UAE Armed Forces Commercial Aviation Services Etihad flies world’s first flight using 150 777s (direct purchase and leased) AH-64 Apaches 777 Component Services Program, seawater-grown fuel made in the UAE 126 777Xs on order 20 CH-47 Chinooks 777 Landing Gear Shipset, 30 787s on order 8 C-17 Globemaster IIIs 777 Training, 787 Quick Engine Tawazun, Boeing and EPI celebrate opening 3 Boeing 702 satellites Change Kits, Maintenance Training flydubai of EPI’s new aerospace surface treatment Classroom, Stream, Wind Updates 50+ 737-800s facility in Abu Dhabi and Interiors Mods, Consumables 14 737 MAXs Consignment agreement 237 737 MAXs on order UAE Armed Forces Services Etihad C-17 Globemaster III Integrated 19 777-300ERs Sustainment Program, C-17 5 777 Freighters Simulator Training, AH-64D 2020 25 777Xs on order Performance Based Logistics for Strata successfully delivers its first 787 39 787s delivered A/D Common Components vertical fin to Boeing 32 787s on order