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William Edward Boeing (/ ˈ b oʊ ɪ ŋ /; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later.
William E. Boeing in 1929. In 1909, William E. Boeing, a wealthy lumber entrepreneur who studied at Yale University, became fascinated with airplanes after seeing one at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle.
Boeing is among the largest global aerospace manufacturers; it is the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2022 revenue [6] and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value. [7] Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington, on July 15, 1916. [8]
William Edward Boeing Jr. (November 22, 1922 – January 8, 2015) was an American real estate developer [1] and philanthropist who was the son of aviation pioneer William E. Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. [2]
George Conrad Westervelt (December 30, 1879 – March 15, 1956) was a U.S. Navy engineer who created the company "Pacific Aero Products Co." together with William Boeing. [1] Westervelt left the company in 1916 and Boeing changed the name of the company to the Boeing Airplane Company the following year.
The Boeing Model 1, also known as the B & W Seaplane, was a United States single-engine biplane seaplane aircraft. It was the first Boeing product and carried the initials of its designers, William Boeing and Lt. Conrad Westervelt USN .
The United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was formed in 1929, when William Boeing of Boeing Airplane & Transport Corporation teamed up with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form a large, vertically integrated, amalgamated firm, uniting business interests in all aspects of aviation—a combination of airframe and aircraft engine manufacturing and airline business, to serve all ...
United Airlines was the creation of aviation pioneer William Boeing, who started out in the airplane business in 1916. His Boeing Airplane Company, as it was then called, achieved the first international postal delivery in 1919, and he went on to establish United Aircraft Corp. in 1928.