Four times in the last five years, the Pentagon's inspector general has found that Boeing Co. collected excessive or unjustified payments on U.S. defense contracts. In the latest of four audits since 2008, the watchdog office said the Chicago company charged the Army for new helicopter parts while installing used ones.

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From the very beginning of development of the 787 family, Boeing said it would design the Dreamliner with the plan of eventually offering it in freighter configuration. The key word, of course, was "eventually."