December 1997 - Assembly of the nose section of the first Boeing 757-300 began in December at the Boeing commercial airplane division in Wichita, Kansas. Factory employees installed the crown, forward pressure bulkhead and crew floor assemblies that make up the nose section. The completed section is scheduled to ship to the 757 final assembly factory in Renton, Wash., early in 1998. The 757-300, a derivative of the Boeing 757-200, is scheduled for delivery to launch customer Condor Flugdienst of Germany in January 1999. The aircraft will have the lowest seat-mile cost of any single-aisle jetliner.