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The U.S. Air Force launched a Global Positioning System (GPS-II-R) satellite today, marking the 30th GPS satellite put into orbit by a Boeing Delta II over the past decade. The launch took place...
Scott Griffin, a 21-year veteran Boeing executive with broad experience in the company's businesses and information technology, has been named Chief Information Officer of The Boeing Company....
The new 767-400ER (extended range) taxied for the first time Oct. 5 on the runway at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. The test, conducted prior to first flight, provides data about the airplane's...
A Boeing 757 Special Freighter (SF) in DHL Worldwide Express livery is shown here in an artist's rendering. The Boeing Company and DHL today signed an innovative deal that will provide 44 757SFs...
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a $1.3 billion, 15-year follow-on contract for Guidance/Navigation Systems Repair (GNSR) from the U.S. Air Force's Ogden Air Logistics Center for the...
The Boeing Company today announced it has signed a deal to provide 44 757 Special Freighters to DHL Worldwide Express under a new program offering a total solution for airline fleet management. As...
The U.S. Army and The Boeing Company will highlight the newest technology in the rotorcraft industry during the Association of the United States Army Conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 11-13....
Bad weather on Saturday at Cape Canaveral Air Station Fla., has delayed the launch of a U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket. The launch was...
The Boeing Company announced a reorganization and consolidation of its product financing activities into a newly restructured subsidiary, Boeing Capital Corporation. "This reorganization is...
The National Missile Defense (NMD) program has achieved a successful flight test intercept of a ballistic missile target. The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] is the prime contractor for the National...
The Boeing Company today announced third quarter and nine months 1999 deliveries as follows: Major Programs 3rd Quarter Nine Months 717 2 (2) 2 (2) 737 Classic 9 34 737 Next-Generation 68 207 747...
The Boeing 767 Program today celebrated a unique program milestone - the delivery of airplane No. 767. This airplane is the 767th 767 to be built by The Boeing Company. The airplane - a 767-300ER...
The 767th 767 to be built by Boeing was delivered today to G.E. Capital Aviation Services. The airplane will be operated by Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines. Aeroflot plans to use its...
After a brush with Hurricane Floyd, a Boeing Delta II rocket stands ready to launch a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force is scheduled to launch the...
Today, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, the Honorable John C. Coughenour approved a settlement of lawsuits filed against The Boeing Company last year alleging racial discrimination. The $15...
The Boeing Company today confirmed Delta Air Lines has placed a firm order for 18 additional Next-Generation 737-800s as part of the airline's previously announced plan to accelerate replacement...
Boeing Airplane Services today announced that since it began offering in-flight entertainment engineering services to airlines in March 1999, it has received more than 60 requests from 30 airlines...
An independent British/U.S. study jointly assessed the potential for the V-22 to meet current and future U.K. vertical airlift requirements. The requirements for this study were based on the Royal...
The Boeing Company has sold its Overmeyer property in Renton, Wash., to the Merlino Construction Company, Inc. Located adjacent to the Boeing assembly plant for 737 and 757 jetliners, the property...
The Boeing Company today announced it has acquired The Preston Group, an Australian company that specializes in aviation software applications. The Preston Group is a Melbourne-based firm, with...
In a move that will extend the benefits of electronic commerce to more of the world's airlines, The Boeing Company today began a pilot program to provide direct access to airplane maintenance...
The Boeing Company has begun a pilot program to provide airlines direct access to key maintenance documents over the World Wide Web. Under the program, Boeing will migrate its Boeing On-Line...
NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is scheduled to arrive at its Boeing birthplace tomorrow morning (weather permitting) atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to begin approximately 10 months of...
The launch of the first commercial satellite from a floating platform at sea will take place on Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, Sea Launch Company announced today. A 200-foot Sea Launch rocket will lift...
The Boeing Company today announced Aeronavali of Italy has selected Boeing Airplane Services' Modification Center to modify one DC-10-30 airplane from passenger to freighter configuration. The...
The Boeing Company today delivered its first 717-200, the world's newest 100-seat passenger jet, to launch customer AirTran Airways. The 717-200, assembled at the Boeing Long Beach Division, was...
The Boeing Company and British Airways announced today that the airline will be the first launch customer for the Global Airline Inventory NetworkSM, an innovative new service in which Boeing will...
The Boeing Company today announced the promotion of two company executives to positions at Company Offices in Seattle. Anne Toulouse, 41, has been named vice president - Advertising and Corporate...
Hawaiian Airlines announced an intent to order 13 Boeing 717-200 regional jets, with rights to purchase an additional seven 717-200s, The Boeing Company confirmed today. The value of the 13...
The Boeing Company told its commercial airplane suppliers worldwide on Tuesday that changing the way they and Boeing do business together will be key to success in the 21st century. "Through new...
Yesterday Boeing mechanics attached the single-piece wing for the X-32B to its fuselage, completing a major step in the final assembly of the second Boeing Joint Strike Fighter concept...
A series of dramatic aerobatic maneuvers, performed by an AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter for the first time in public today, has showcased the aircraft's performance and agility. The...
The Boeing Company announced today a realignment of its Customer Services business unit in the Commercial Airplanes Group. The company also announced that it is changing the business unit's name...
Richard G. Higgins, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group vice president of Maintenance Engineering and Publications, has received the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Safety Award from the publisher...
Boeing today announced certification of the first-ever airborne satellite television system with operational service coverage in three regions of the world. Installed by Jet Aviation in Basel,...
For the first time, The Boeing Company's Global Mobile Service is showing its ability to provide a world-wide data service. This advanced communications capability was demonstrated in the U.S. Air...
The Boeing Company today announced a re-alignment of its research and development group, the Phantom Works organization, which now will report directly to the Office of the Chairman. As part of...
The Boeing Company in Philadelphia has achieved ISO 9001 certification, marking the facility and its rotorcraft and aerospace programs fully compliant with world-class production and quality...
A Boeing 767-300ER (extended range) airplane owned and operated by Lauda Air of Austria has completed an around-the-world flight, which began Aug. 30 in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the...
A new Turkish Airlines 737-800 is leaving for Istanbul Wednesday evening with relief supplies destined for earthquake-devastated areas of Turkey. In addition, Boeing is donating $250,000 in cash...
Switzerland will join Norway and the United States and become the third nation to field a 30mm Chain Gun® cannon produced by The Boeing Company for its Infantry Fighting Vehicle. The Hagglunds...
The Boeing Next-Generation 737 family of airplanes recently received approval for 180-minute extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)....
Boeing says contract negotiations have begun with the Australian Department of Defence on Project Wedgetail, an Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system for the Australian Defence Force...
Boeing has demonstrated a prototype of its innovative logistics network -- the Joint Distributed Information System -- which will significantly reduce Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) life-cycle costs....
Sabey Corporation has purchased the East Marginal Way Corporate Park from The Boeing Company. The six-building campus in Tukwila, immediately south of Seattle, consists of 798,000 square feet of...
A new three-year contract between The Boeing Company in Philadelphia and Local 1069 of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agriculture Workers was ratified today. "The contract calls for a...
The U.S. Department of Defense hosted a Tiltrotor Technology Presentation on the Pentagon's River Entrance parade ground to demonstrate the capabilities and versatility of tiltrotor Sept. 8....
The U.S. Marine Corps' first production MV-22B landed on the Pentagon parade grounds lawn along with the Bell XV-15 tiltrotor for a day of exhibit and orientation flights. More than 1,000 Pentagon...
The Boeing Company delivered the first of four re-engined KC-135R Stratotankers to the Republic of Singapore Air Force. The delivery took place at ceremonies here today attended by representatives...
Information technology is the key to boosting productivity in the air transport industry, according to a top Boeing Company official. Richard G. Higgins, vice president-Maintenance Engineering &...
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced the selection of McCann-Erickson as its advertising agency of record. Judith Muhlberg, Boeing's vice president of Communications, said the company...
The Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche Joint Program Office will move to Huntsville, Ala., on July 1, 2000. According to Boeing Sikorsky program director Arthur Linden, the move will provide a closer...
The Boeing Company today delivered Uzbekistan Airways' first of two 757-200s to be used for scheduled service. Attending this milestone event were Arslan Ruzmetov, director general - Uzbekistan...
Uzbekistan Airways' first 757-200 prepares for takeoff from Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash. The airplane is the first of two 757-200s the carrier plans to use for routes connecting Uzbekistan to...
A team led by The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and including Hughes, Raytheon, Kodak and Harris has been awarded a Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) contract by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Boeing reported that it will take a special third quarter charge to earnings of $225 million pretax associated with inventory on the F-15 program. This is in addition to a $45 million charge taken...
Boeing employees at the Long Beach Division witness the formal certification of the new 100-seat 717-200 by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities. ###
The Boeing Company has delivered the first of 59 WAH-64 Apache Longbow helicopter kits to GKN Westland Helicopters Ltd., of Yeovil, England. The helicopter kit, which arrived in Yeovil this week,...
The new Boeing 717-200 jetliner today received joint certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities for the airplane's type design. In...
The Boeing Company is expanding its growing military Aerospace Support business by establishing a new modification and upgrade center for tactical aircraft in Jacksonville, Fla. The Boeing...
A new configuration of the Boeing Delta II rocket is being developed to launch a space-based telescope that will probe the origins of the universe. The launch of Space Infrared Telescope Facility...
This new Lauda Air Boeing 767-300ER (extended airplane) left Frankfurt, Germany, Aug. 30 on a 12-day, around-the-world adventure that will take 130 passengers to four continents. The airplane was...
The Boeing Company has signed a contract with the U.S. Army to launch development of a new low maintenance rotor hub that will provide major cost and readiness benefits for the CH-47 Chinook,...
An around-the-world adventure begins today for 130 passengers on Lauda Air flight No. 767. The flight is aptly named for the Boeing 767 jetliner that will carry the passengers to four major...
The Boeing Company announced that it has concluded contract negotiations with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers covering 44,300 represented employees in the Seattle...
Boeing is playing a major role in the U.S. Air Force-sponsored Joint Expeditionary Forces Experiment (JEFX '99) by supplying and integrating key pieces of an overall communications architecture...
Freshly painted in its Boeing livery, the newest 767 jetliner pauses at sunset outside the paint hangar at the Boeing facility in Everett, Wash. The 767-400ER (extended range) was formally...
The first new jetliner scheduled for airline delivery in the 21st century will make its formal debut today during an employee celebration as the airplane rolls out of the Boeing factory in...
The first Boeing CH-47SD, "Super D," Chinook completed its first flight recently, starting with hover and basic maneuvers over the Boeing Philadelphia flight ramp followed by a 1.5-hour trip...
The Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche Joint Program Office has delivered a $3.1 billion proposal to the U.S. Army to initiate the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the Comanche...
A Brimstone anti-armor weapon was successfully launched for the first time at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. The launch took place earlier this month from a Brimstone launcher mounted on a specially...
Boeing commercial airplanes are not affected by the Global Positioning System (GPS) clock-resetting event that occurs at midnight tomorrow, The Boeing Company announced today. GPS is not designed...
A team of volunteer medical personnel and 8,000 pounds of disaster relief supplies left Seattle last night for Istanbul aboard a new Turkish Airlines 737-800. The airplane was scheduled to arrive...
Air China (BEJ) accepted delivery of its first Boeing Next-Generation 737-800, The Boeing Company announced today. This is the first of 11 737-800s the airline ordered in 1997 and 1998....
Air China's first Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 takes off from Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash. Air China - the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China (PRC) - took delivery of its first of...
The Boeing Company has further confirmed its leadership in stealth technology development by winning a new U.S. Air Force contract to produce the Common Low Observables Verification System, also...
As National Missile Defense Lead System Integrator (NMD LSI) prime contractor, the Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] presented its NMD system design during a successful System Preliminary Design Review...
A Boeing Delta II rocket delivered four Globalstar satellites to orbit today. The Delta II, which lifted off the pad at 12:37 a.m. EDT, brings the total number of Globalstar satellites on orbit to 36.
The Asian Youth Orchestra today kicks-off the U.S. portion of its world tour at The Boeing Company's twin-aisle airplane manufacturing facilities in Everett, Wash. The orchestra will perform an...
Boeing today announced that Philip W. Cyburt has been named president of The Boeing Realty Corporation (BRC), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Cyburt, 40, has been BRC's vice...
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has qualified the 717-200 full-motion flight simulator built by FlightSafety Boeing Training International, and the first pilots from AirTran Airways...
A major step in the production of a turret window for the revolutionary Airborne Laser (ABL) program was completed Monday when members of Team ABL accepted delivery of the largest optical quality...
The next Boeing Delta II launch will orbit another four Globalstar satellites - to total sixteen satellites launched by Boeing since June for the emerging telecommunications company. The launch is...
China Airlines, Taiwan's leading carrier, announced an order for 13 Boeing 747-400 freighters -- the largest order placed by any airline in the world. China Airlines will be using these freighters...
Three consecutive Mars missions, all launched aboard Delta rockets, on time and within a four-month period, has garnered The Boeing Company a NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award. Kristen...
With a huge hangar full of aircraft, the Boeing Aerospace Support Center in San Antonio celebrated its first year of operations. Today at a ceremony at the Boeing center at Kelly Air Force Base,...
A top Boeing Company official said yesterday that timely, accurate, data-rich information will be crucial to supporting the commercial jet fleet in tomorrow's world of the "virtual airline." "Our...
A team of engineering professors from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz., has been selected to receive the prestigious 1999 Boeing Outstanding Educator Award. As the winner, the team...
The first two Apache Longbow combat helicopter pilots from the United Kingdom have completed individual pilot training at The Boeing Company in Mesa, Ariz. The pilots trained in the WAH-64, which...
Government and industry officials today helped a Boeing-led industry team kick off the start of major assembly of the first Airborne Laser flying platform -- the 747-400 Freighter -- at the Boeing...
Hangar 1 at the Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, Calif., is home to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron NINE - called VX-9. This is the same hangar that shelters aging secrets which helped win...
When the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, asked if Boeing could provide a real-time video feed from the United States to an aircraft in flight over Europe with...
The Boeing Company will soon begin construction of a 36,000-square-foot industrial building at its Delta rocket integration site located in Pueblo, Colo. - the latest in a series of infrastructure...
- In a major milestone toward flight testing next year, Boeing has connected electrical power to its Joint Strike Fighter X-32A concept demonstrator. The X-32A is in final assembly and systems...
The U.S. Air Force accepted its 51st and 52nd Boeing C-17 Globemaster III cargo airplanes in a brief ceremony here today. Gen. Charles T. "Tony" Robertson Jr., Commander of the U.S. Air Force Air...
Using its proprietary Program Visibility System, the Boeing Joint Strike Fighter program is achieving the goal of the U.S. Defense Department to make "paperless" contract reporting a standard...
Prudent investments in America's reusable Space Shuttle fleet are essential if the nation is to maintain safe, reliable and affordable human access to space and fulfill its human spaceflight...
Boeing has delivered an updated F-22 avionics software package, called Block 2, to its 757 Flying Test Bed ahead of schedule. The Block 2 delivery is one of the U.S. Department of Defense program...
The U.S. Air Force and Boeing successfully launched the first Boeing-developed Joint Direct Attack Munition kit for a MK82 500-pound bomb recently at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The JDAM kit, which...
The U.S. Army and The Boeing Company offered the world a glimpse of the future today as they unveiled the Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate, an advanced cockpit management system destined to change how...