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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.
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]
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, ... Boeing built the Boeing 717 until 2006 and the C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter until ...
The agreements, which run through April 2028, ended contentious talks that began in the summer of 2022 and led to six-week-long strikes at all three automakers. The new contract agreements were ...
A strike that long would cost Boeing up to $3.5 billion in cash flow, as the company gets about 60% of the sale price when it delivers a plane to the buyer, von Rumohr added. The eight-week strike ...
The suspension of airplane production could prove costly for beleaguered Boeing, depending on how long it runs. The last Boeing strike, in 2008, lasted eight weeks and cost the company about $100 ...
JetZero is a startup company in the aviation industry founded in Long Beach, California, in 2021. [1] It focuses on blended wing body aircraft. [2] [3] The U.S. Air Force, NASA, and a small group of private investors supplied the initial funding. [4] Tom O’Leary is a co-founder and the CEO. Mark Page is a co-founder and the Chief Technology ...
In September 2013, Boeing announced that C-17 production was starting to close down. In October 2014, the main wing spar of the 279th and last aircraft was completed; this C-17 was delivered in 2015, after which Boeing closed the Long Beach plant. [50] [51] Production of spare components was to continue until at least 2017. The C-17 is ...