Originally Posted by
RufusXS
That's not really true. The first 6 787s produced were meant to be test articles. 1-3 were never envisioned as having economic value after testing so I believe they are scattered around the world as static displays. 4-6 were thought to potentially be suitable for sale, but only #6 was purchased (I believe by the Mexican government for VIP transport). 4 & 5 were indeed scrapped with very low hours (1,500ish I believe).
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It is true, none of the 787 test aircraft were supposed to be scrapped, they were all planned to go into service like the 777. All were supposed to be sold.
When’re market showed no interest in these frames, Boeing decided to scrap the aircraft, they used the aircraft to move 2.5 billion out of their 787 production costs into their R&D budget. They fixed two problems, their bloated production costs and aircraft no one wanted to buy.