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DAVOS, Switzerland — Bombardier president and CEO Pierre Beaudoin hopes that its CSeries airliners will take its first flight in June, demonstrating that the Quebec transportation giant has learned the lessons from Boeing’s difficulties with its 787 Dreamliner.

In an interview with The Canadian Press in Davos, where he is participating in the World Economic Forum, Beaudoin said that assembly of the first CSeries test plane was “very advanced.” The wings have been attached to the commercial aircraft’s fuselage and machinists are ready to install the landing gear.

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Another positive sign is that assembly of two other test planes have also begun.

The CEO said he recently saw the progress being made first hand by visiting the new facility in Mirabel, north of Montreal, that was built specifically for the 110 to 149-seat plane.

Beaudoin, however, is the first to recognize that the development of a new aircraft is an “extremely complex” process.