**The first flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will take place by the end of 2009, the company has announced.**Boeing also said it hoped to deliver the first plane for service in the last quarter of 2010.
There have been a series of delays in the development of the aircraft model, and it is now running almost two years behind its original schedule.
Boeing chairman Jim McNerney said the extra time would enable the remaining work to be completed.
The delay was partly caused by an area within the side-of-body section of the aircraft which needed to be reinforced, Boeing added.
The company hopes to be making 10 787 planes per month by the end of 2013, and last month said it already had 850 orders.