Boeing’s Scott Carson holds a model of the 787 Dreamliner in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2007. (AP Photo)

By Michael Oneal | Scott Carson, who stepped aside as head of Boeing Co.’s troubled commercial airplane business last September, will remain with the company as a consultant for two more years and collect a $1.5 million fee, according to a company filing.

The $1.5 million matches the “targeted” cash compensation Carson received from the company in 2009 and will be paid in a lump sum, the filing said.

He will also be reimbursed for “reasonable expenses” incurred while acting as a “commercial airplane products and services consultant.”

Carson , 63, a former sales executive who led the commercial airplane division during the most tumultuous period in its history, departed his former post in September but officially retired at the end of the year, meaning he collected all of his 2009 compensation.

He was replaced Jim Albaugh who had run Boeing’s defense business since 2002.

Carson took over the airplane group in 2006, inheriting both the ground-breaking design that made the company’s 787 Dreamliner a hot seller and a new manufacturing process that Boeing executives later admitted relied too heavily on supply partners.

Under his watch, Boeing continued to struggle to resolve manufacturing and design glitches with the largely composite airplane, which has broken company records for both sales and delays.

The 787 finally took its first flight on Dec. 16 and has been in certification testing since. Boeing hopes to finish testing and deliver its first plane to launch customer All Nippon Airways of Japan in this year’s fourth quarter.