Boeing: Timeline

777   Boeing 777 - a twin-engine widebody airliner built by Boeing

1916   In Seattle, Washington Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the largest city [i] in the Pacific Northwest [i] region of the United States [i]. ... 

, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

1930   Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).

1962   An air crash occurs at Orly Airport in Paris - an Air France Air France

Air France is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM [i]. ... 

 Boeing 707 over-runs the runway; 130 of 132 passengers are killed, two stewardesses survive.

1962   An Air France Air France

Air France is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM [i]. ... 

 Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board. It is the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks.

1985   In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.

1987   NASA NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States Government [i], res ... 

 announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace Boeing

The Boeing Company is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago [i], Illinois [i]. ... 

, General Electric General Electric

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's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.

1997   Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete merger.

2003   Boeing chairman and CEO Phil Condit resigns unexpectedly. He is replaced by Lewis Platt as non-executive chairman and Harry Stonecipher as president and CEO.