Six production AH-64D Apache Longbow combat helicopters were loaded into a C-5A transport aircraft by the U.S. Army and flown to Ft. Hood, Texas, last week. The mission demonstrated the Army's...

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has ordered four Boeing Next-Generation 737-800s, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group confirmed today. The planes will join four 737-800s KLM previously ordered to expand its...

In a move designed to elevate The Boeing Company's presence and effectiveness in Europe, the aerospace manufacturer announced today that senior industry executive Richard L. (Dick) James has been...

The Boeing Company announced today that it delivered 108 commercial jet transports during the first quarter of 1998, ending March 31. The deliveries during the three-month period consisted of 34...

Following five successful flight tests and the completion of developmental testing, the U.S. Navy has approved the second low-rate initial production lot of the Boeing-produced Standoff Land...

The Boeing Company in Philadelphia and Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have established a new partnership to sustain the critical warfighting capability of the U.S. Army's CH-47 Chinook...

Pembroke Capital Ltd., a financial services and asset management company based in Dublin, Ireland, this week received the first of 12 Boeing 737s the company has ordered. The Boeing 737-300, is...

Kuwait Airways, flag carrier for Kuwait, recently took delivery of its first 777-200. The Middle East carrier's second 777 twinjet will deliver in June of this year. The airline ordered both 777s...

Boeing successfully completed a comprehensive series of reviews with Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) officials including affordability and performance aspects of the company's operational aircraft...

Just out of the paint hangar in gleaming white, blue and yellow colors, the first MD-11F (freighter) for Lufthansa Cargo AG is on the flight ramp at the Boeing Douglas Products Division factory in...

The U.S. Army's top two combat helicopters for the 21st century the AH-64D Apache Longbow and the RAH-66 Comanche are appearing in public together for the first time at the 1998 Army Aviation...

Production, testing and training activities on the AH-64D Apache, the world's most advanced multi-mission combat helicopter, are in full swing at The Boeing Company in Mesa, Ariz. Boeing is...

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group today confirmed an order by El Al Israeli Airlines for two Next-Generation 737-700s and three 737-800s. The confirmation comes several months after the airline -...

Boeing has received a contract worth $26.5 million to install electronic support measures (ESM) on the French Air Force's fleet of four E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft....

Major scientific breakthroughs to be made on the International Space Station are another step closer as The Boeing Company today delivered a final piece of hardware to complete a key element of...

The U.S. Air Force today awarded Boeing the Low Rate Initial Production contract for the Minuteman III ICBM Guidance Replacement Program (GRP).The award follows the successful completion of...

Pegasus Airlines took delivery of its first purchased 737-400 on March 27. The private charter company, based in Istanbul, Turkey, also is scheduled to take delivery of a Next-Generation 737-800...

TEA-Switzerland takes delivery of its first Boeing Next-Generation 737-700. The airplane, leased from International Lease Finance Corporation, will be used on charter flights to a variety of...

The first of 10 Boeing 777s was delivered to Air France over the weekend and landed today at Paris. Powered by General Electric GE90 engines, Air France's new 777-200 is scheduled to begin service...

The joint-venture team of Boeing and CSA Czech Airlines expressed pleasure that the Czech Cabinet approved the resolution pertaining to the venture's investment in Aero Vodochody. The joint...

Today's successful launch of five Iridium® satellites aboard a Boeing Delta II launch vehicle brings the total number of operational satellites in orbit to 56. The Iridium constellation is now...

The Boeing Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) IIF program recently earned a 93-percent award fee rating from the U.S. Air Force Space & Missile Command for its satellite development effort....

The Bell Boeing Tiltrotor Team broke new ground on March 3, 1998, with the first ever V-22 Osprey night flight utilizing night vision goggles (NVG). Osprey No. 10, piloted by Capt. William Witzig,...

The Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) system was officially launched recently with the delivery by Boeing of handheld satellite communication radios to the U.S. Air Force. The CSEL system is a...

Boeing appointed Mike Kennedy to the newly created position of vice president for the Boeing Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) and Delta IV programs Wednesday. Kennedy previously was the...

The Boeing Company in Huntsville, Ala., has been awarded a $5 million contract from the U.S. Army to support the development, production and integration of an Avenger Slew-to-Cue modification kit....

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group today reported its progress on the 7-series production-recovery efforts. The company also confirmed that it plans to deliver approximately 550 airplanes in 1998,...

DigitalXpress, a provider of satellite communications services, today announced that TEN-TV (Technology Education Network) will broadcast a series of computer programming courses offered by...

The Boeing Company today announced a plan to streamline facilities, focus manufacturing and assembly operations, and eliminate redundant laboratories. By the end of the year 2000, these phased...

The rear fuselage section of the first Boeing 757-300 is lifted into place on the assembly line at the Boeing factory in Renton, Wash. Joining the front and rear fuselage sections to the wing...

The Boeing Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) completed its fifth and final development test flight by successfully tracking and attacking a mobile target ship. The flight...

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Boeing its approval to expand the types of airplane modifications it performs at its Modification Center in Wichita. The approval, known as a...

Boeing has attained another "first" at the Guidance Repair Center by achieving Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification to repair the Carousel IV family of Inertial Navigation Systems...

The delivery of another five Iridium satellites on Sunday, March 22, will bring the total number of operating satellites to 54 on orbit. The launch is scheduled for 10:41:54 p.m. PST, within a...

Continental Airlines has exercised options from a previous Next-Generation 737 order and will purchase 15 Boeing 737-900s, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group confirmed today. The twinjets are...

Dean C. Borgman, Boeing senior vice president and head of the company's helicopter facility here, will retire this spring. Borgman, 56, took over the Mesa facility in 1992 during a period of...

Boeing Enterprises and RADA Electronic Industries today announced that they have signed a preliminary agreement for Boeing to invest $10 million to acquire a minority interest in RADA. The...

The second model of the Next-Generation 737 family, the 737-800, has earned type certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The certification formally recognizes that the...

New rotor technology that promises to take helicopter flight into the 21st century is under development by The Boeing Company. Boeing engineers in Mesa and Philadelphia are studying the...

Final assembly of the first Boeing 717-200 test airplane is progressing swiftly toward a May rollout. Work is well under way on two other test airplanes, as well as the first production model,...

Production workers on the Boeing 717-200 Program at Douglas Products Division in Long Beach, Calif., install the second of two BR715 engines on the first test airplane, designated T-1....

The Boeing facilities here have become the single largest industrial site in the world to have its operations certified by independent evaluators as meeting the internationally recognized ISO 9000...

Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and NASA engineers are conducting initial test firings with the Boeing Delta III second stage at the NASA Lewis Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The...

The Boeing Company today announced that it has contracted to modify two 747-200 combi jetliners into special freighter configuration for American International Airways. The work will be performed...

German tour operator Germania Fluggesellschaft mbH today helped The Boeing Company's newest jetliner -- the 737-700 -- set a new distance record, flying the single-aisle plane nonstop from Seattle...

Boeing today formally introduced the newest member of its airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) family, delivering the company's first two 767 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)...

Russian Trade Minister Mikhail Fradkov and U.S. Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley today attended a signing ceremony confirming a five-year contract award by Boeing Commercial Airplane Group...

DigitalXpress a leading provider of innovative business satellite communications services, has added full screen, full motion desktop video delivery to its suite of broadcast communication...

The Boeing Company is well positioned for the future, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group President Ron Woodard told investors attending the Piper Jaffray 12th Annual Pacific Northwest Investor...

For a half century, the corporate-funded McDonnell Douglas Foundation has advanced the goals of not-for-profit organizations and educational institutions. Today, it continues to reach out to the...

SR Technics, an SAir Services company based in Switzerland, has been selected to perform flightdeck conversions as part of a Boeing MD-10 program to transform DC-10s into advanced-technology cargo...

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group today announced that Ryanair, one of Europe's leading low-fares airlines, signed a purchase agreement for 45 Boeing 737-800s. The package includes 25 orders and 20...

The 38th Boeing C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft was delivered to the U.S. Air Force in a short ceremony here today. The aircraft was flown to its new home, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., by...

John A. McLuckey, President of Boeing Space Systems, has announced his intention to retire on April 1. As President of the Space Systems business unit, he has had direct responsibility for a group...

The Boeing Company has begun production of the latest model Chinook tandem rotor helicopter, the CH-47SD or "Super D," with rollout scheduled for Oct. 31, 1999. The production decision follows the...

Negotiating teams from the Boeing-CSA Czech Airlines joint venture and Aero Vodochody reached an agreement Wednesday regarding the joint venture acquiring a minority stake in Aero Vodochody, and...

Maersk Air, a major regional airline in Scandinavia, became the first European airline to take delivery of a Boeing Next-Generation 737-700, one of the newest members of the popular 737 family.

The Boeing Company has delivered its 24th AH-64D Apache Longbow, marking completion of the first production lot of a $1.9 billion multi-year contract with the U.S. Army for the world's most...

Boeing engineers have released for production 90 percent of the design drawings necessary to build the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ). This means that the BBJ program is moving from its development...

Maersk Air, a major regional airline in Scandinavia, became the first European airline to take delivery of a Boeing Next-Generation 737-700, one of the newest members of the popular 737 family....

Kuwait Airways' first ever Boeing 777-200 rolls out of the paint hanger towards delivery this Spring. This IGW (increased gross weight ) 777 is part of a two airplane order signed in 1996. It...

The Boeing Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) has successfully separated from a B-52H in recent testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The Feb. 20 separation test is the first in a...

The Boeing Company has completed the first major overhaul of Test System-3 (TS-3), an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) test aircraft, which has been flying missions since the 1970s....

The 3,000th Boeing 737, a -400 model, was delivered to Alaska Airlines today. The landmark delivery occurred 30 years after the first 737-100 entered commercial revenue service with Lufthansa on...

The Boeing Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) has successfully completed a series of safe separation flight tests on an F-16 D. The third and final F-16 separation test was conducted...

The four 767 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft Boeing will deliver to the government of Japan are parked together for the first time at Boeing Field in Seattle. Aircraft No. 1...

The first production trailing edge flaps for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet were delivered today in a ceremony at Aerospace Technologies of Australia (ASTA), a subsidiary of Boeing Australia Limited....

The three major fuselage sections of the first production V-22 Osprey were joined today at the Boeing facility in suburban Philadelphia. The V-22 tiltrotor is being developed by the team of Bell...

Boeing Commercial Airplane Group (BCAG) continues to stabilize production of 7-Series jetliners. In preparation for the next production-rate increase in April, BCAG and its supplier team have...

The Boeing Company today announced its intention to sell its single-engine commercial helicopter business to Bell Helicopter Textron of Fort Worth, Texas. The sale includes all variants of the MD...

Boeing today announced its entry into the commercial communications test and measurement market with a multi-protocol analyzer that is the first of its kind in the industry. The Boeing AS4950 is...

Boeing has been awarded a four-year, $48 million contract by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., to develop a solar orbit transfer vehicle. The sun-powered...

The Boeing Company today announced that its 1998 annual meeting of stockholders will be held April 27 in St. Louis. This will mark the first time in the company's history that the event has been...

Boeing today announced its plans to establish a major aerospace logistics and support center for large aircraft at Kelly Air Force Base, located near San Antonio, Texas. The new Boeing Aerospace...

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims today issued its final decision in the A-12 aircraft litigation filed in 1991 and has determined that the McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics team is entitled...

Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), which comprise the aviation regulatory authorities of 27 countries, today recommended type validation of the Boeing Next-Generation 737-700. Actual type...

A reinvigorated partnership with industry is key to achieving the technology hurdles facing the U.S. Special Operations Command, according to retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Richard Hearney....

DigitalXpress, a provider of satellite communications services, announced today that it has signed a business agreement with Oakwood Homes Corporation, the nation's largest retailer of...

Today's successful deployment of another five IRIDIUM system satellites from a Boeing [NYSE:BA] Delta II rocket brings the total of satellites to 51 in orbit. The launch took place at 5:58 a.m....

David Smukowski has been appointed president of FlightSafety Boeing Training International. FlightSafety Boeing is a joint venture between The Boeing Company and FlightSafety International. The...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced the selection of six new energy-saving projects designed to accelerate the commercialization of environmentally friendly high-temperature...

ITHACO was selected by Boeing for the 1997 Exceptional Company Performance Award from among a national network of Boeing satellite and shuttle program subcontractors and suppliers. Selection...

Employees at The Boeing Company in Mesa, Ariz., assemble the first of 30 AH-64D Apaches for The Royal Netherlands Air Force. The Netherlands will become the first international customer to take...

Tomorrow's launch of five IRIDIUM system satellites aboard a Boeing Delta II has been postponed due to forecasted precipitation, high ground winds and the potential for lightning. The launch has...

Tomorrow's launch of five IRIDIUM system satellites aboard a Boeing Delta II has been postponed due to forecasted precipitation, high ground winds and the potential for lightning. The launch has...

A Boeing Delta II successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., delivered the first four satellites of the Globalstar network at 09:34 EST. The Globalstar satellites are built by...

The Boeing Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Condit said in Kuala Lumpur today that Boeing is committed to supporting its Asian business partners during the Asian economic crisis....

Officials scrubbed today's launch of a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle carrying five IRIDIUM system satellites due to upper level winds. The Delta II team will be assessing weather...

The Boeing Delta II team has rescheduled the IRIDIUM® launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Calif., for Sunday, February 15. The decision to launch on Sunday was based upon the weather...

Retired U.S. Navy pilot and Vietnam Ace, U.S. Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), took the throttle of the U.S. Navy's new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet on Saturday, Feb.7, flying the strike...

The first of four new airplanes that will transport U.S. government officials made its first flight Feb. 11. At 3:41 p.m. PST, the C-32A - a slightly modified Boeing 757-200 - took off from Renton...

The Boeing Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Condit said in Jakarta today that Boeing is committed to supporting its business partners in Asia during the current economic crisis....

A Boeing Delta II stands ready at Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS), Fla. to carry the first four Globalstar satellites into orbit for Space Systems/Loral. The launch window on Feb. 14 opens at...

The Boeing Company today announced its intention to sell its commercial helicopter business and to restructure its participation in the Bell Boeing joint venture on the 609 commercial tiltrotor...

The Boeing SLAM ER (Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response) successfully completed the fourth of five developmental test flights at the Pacific Missile Test Range at Pt. Mugu, Calif,...

Officials scrubbed today's launch of a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle carrying five IRIDIUM® system satellites due to upper level winds. The launch has been rescheduled for Feb. 13....

The Boeing Company, Hexcel Corporation Sime Darby Berhad and Malaysia Helicopter Services (MHS) today announced that they have agreed to form a joint venture to manufacture composite commercial...

In an effort to assist employees affected by layoffs at United Space Alliance (USA), The Boeing Company has reviewed hiring plans at its space businesses. Based on new launch vehicle business, and...

In response to media inquiries regarding wire service reports from Europe yesterday, The Boeing Company has issued the following statement: While the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group's...

The warhead of the Boeing Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) successfully penetrated a thick, reinforced concrete target with no adverse affect on the casing or the fuze in a recent...