Boeing

Headquarters	100 North Riverside Chicago , IL 60606 United States

Legally known as Boeing Company, Boeing is an aircraft and spacecraft development company in the Aerospace industry. The company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports: commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight and space launch systems.

Company Heritage

Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing. Boeing was incorporated on July 15, 1916, as the "Pacific Aero Products Co.", in Seattle, Washington. The company changed its name to "Boeing Airplane Company" on May 9, 1917.

Joint Ventures and Partnerships

Boeing has a partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Future Plans

Chart containing the capacity of current and future Boeing aircraft

Yellowstone Project

• Y1-Intended to replace the 100-200 passenger aircraft (B717, B737, B757)
• Y2-To Replace the 200-300 passenger aircraft (B757, B767). Was originally developed as the Sonic Cruiser, became the 7e7 which became the B787.
• Y3-Intended to replace 300+ passenger aircraft (B777, B747)

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See Also

• Aerospace engineering
• Engineering
• Spaceflight
• Lockheed Martin Corporation

External Links & Related Organizations

• Boeing Company Home Page
  • New Airplane Boeing's new generation of aircraft site
  • Randy's Journal Blog of the BCA Vice president-marketing Randy Tinseth