{"id":52,"date":"2016-01-04T13:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:53:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:53:34","slug":"boeing-turning-100th-years-old-in-2016-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Boeing turns 100 years old in 2016, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boeing Company, which was\u00a0founding on July 16, 1916, will turn 100 years old this summer. It has been quite a wild first 100 years, as the company has seen many big ups and downs. The origins of Boeing go back to March of 1910, when William E. Boeing bought a\u00a0shipyard in Seattle, which later would become his original\u00a0airplane factory.<\/p>\n

Incorporated as “Pacific Aero Products Company” in Seattle in July of\u00a01916, the first aircraft the company built was the\u00a0“B&W seaplane”. The company changed its name to\u00a0the “Boeing Airplane Company” in May of\u00a01917.\u00a0After making some improvements to the first airplane model, Boeing received an order for 50 of its\u00a0newer version “Model C”\u00a0from the US Navy\u00a0following the outbreak of World War I. At\u00a0the end of\u00a0World War I in 1918, there was a large\u00a0surplus of used military planes flooding the market, making it impossible for airplane manufacturers to\u00a0sell much more expensive new aircraft. This caused allot of existing airplane producers to go\u00a0out of business. Boeing was able to survive this first threat to its financial liquidity\u00a0by building furniture\u00a0and\u00a0boats.<\/p>\n

In 1919 the\u00a0Boeing “B-1”\u00a0flying boat made its first flight. It could carry one pilot, two passengers, and mail. This aircraft was followed in May of 1920 by the\u00a0Boeing “Model 8”, which\u00a0was the first plane to fly over\u00a0the Seattle areas famous Mt. Rainier. Boeing also began developing its first fighter aircraft called the “PW-9” in 1923.\u00a0This\u00a0plane\u00a0would migrate into the Boeing “P-12”, making\u00a0Boeing one of the\u00a0leaders in fighter\u00a0aircraft production over the course of the next decade.<\/p>\n

The next plane\u00a0Boeing produced\u00a0was the “Model 40”\u00a0mail plane for the U.S. government. It was followed in 1927 by an improved version called the “Model 40A”, which won the\u00a0contract to deliver mail between San Francisco and Chicago. This was then followed in 1928 by\u00a0the 12 passenger “Boeing-80” biplane. This aircraft had\u00a03 engines, and\u00a0was the first Boeing plane built exclusively to be\u00a0a passenger transport. This version was followed by the\u00a0improved\u00a0version “80-A”, which could carry\u00a0up to\u00a0eighteen passengers.<\/p>\n

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The Boeing Company, which was\u00a0founding on July 16, 1916, will turn 100 years old this summer. It has been quite a wild first 100 years, as the company has seen many big ups and downs. The origins of Boeing go back to March of 1910, when William E. Boeing bought a\u00a0shipyard in Seattle, which later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}