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Douglas C-74 Globemaster at Long Beach Airport with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft in the background. To attract the United States Navy, the City of Long Beach built a hangar and an administrative building and then offered to lease it to the Navy for $1 a year for the establishment of a Naval Reserve air base.
[107] [108] In September, Boeing announced their Long Beach facility manufacturing the C-17 Globemaster III military transport would shut down. [ 109 ] In January 2014, the company announced US$1.23 billion profits for Q4 2013, a 26% increase, due to higher demand for commercial aircraft. [ 110 ]
[1] [55] Boeing introduced a new corporate identity based on the McDonnell Douglas logo, which showed the globe being encircled in tribute to the first aerial circumnavigation which was accomplished in 1924 by Douglas aircraft. It was designed by graphic designer Rick Eiber, who had been the corporate identity consultant for Boeing over ten years.
800-290-4726 more ways to reach ... Meyer said although he’s striking for higher pay from Boeing, he enjoys the job of building airplanes. ... “I can last as long as it takes,” said the ...
Masonic Hall Commercial Building: 5351-53 Long Beach Blvd. 16.52.800: Art Theater Building: 2025 E. 4th St. 16.52.810: Ambassador Apartment Building: 35 Alboni Place 16.52.830: Merrill Building: 810-812 Long Beach Blvd. 16.52.840: Flossie Lewis House: 628 West 10th St. 16.52.860: Pressburg Residence: 167 East South St. 16.52.870: El Cordova ...
The last Long Beach-built commercial aircraft, the Boeing 717 (third generation version of the Douglas DC-9), ceased production in May 2006. By 2011, the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III was the last aircraft being assembled at the Long Beach facility; the final C-17 was assembled in late 2015. [26]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump's private Boeing 757 clipped another corporate jet while taxiing at West Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Sunday, a source ...
The final two Boeing 717s were delivered to customers Midwest Airlines and AirTran Airways on May 23, 2006. [2] [1] The 717 was the last commercial airplane produced at Boeing's Long Beach facility in Southern California. [1]