On 22 July 1983, Air Canada's Boeing 767 ( registration, c / n 22520 / 47 ) flew from Toronto to Edmonton where it underwent routine checks.

The first jet was a Boeing 727 ( Canada's first Boeing ) in 1966, the first Boeing 707 ( allowing non-stop flights to Europe ) in 1968, and the first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet in 1973.

The contract was eventually won by Airbus in 1988, with an order for 34 Airbus A320s, as well as the sale of some of Air Canada's existing Boeing 747 fleet.

Winston Churchill himself departed from Stranraer in a Boeing Flying Boat on the night of the 25 June 1942, when making his second visit of the war to the USA.

The Foynes Flying Boat Museum contains much memorabilia from that era, including the original radio and weather room, along with its equipment and a full-size replica Boeing 314 flying boat.

* 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

In addition to being a haven for artists, the southern end of Whidbey Island also serves as a minor bedroom community for the nearby cities of Everett, where the Boeing Everett Factory is located, and Seattle.

Japanese Gulch provides rail access from the Mukilteo waterfront to the Boeing's Boeing Everett Factory at Paine Field.

* Boeing opens its biggest factory ( largest building by volume ), the Boeing Everett Factory, in Everett, Washington.

One big event Wead was involved with during 1924 – 25 was the planning for the San Francisco to Hawaii endurance and navigation tests to comprise two Naval Aircraft Factory PN-9 flying boats, and one Boeing PB-1 flying boat.

Paine Field is home to the Boeing Everett Factory, the world's largest building by volume, and the primary assembly location for Boeing's wide-body 747, 767, 777 and 787 aircraft.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

The DC-8s were joined in 1962 by the Boeing 720, then in 1964 by the Boeing 727, which Eastern ( along with American, and United ) helped Boeing develop beginning in 1956.

In May 2011 Japan Airlines announced its first Boeing 787 route, Tokyo Narita to Boston, beginning four times weekly on April 22, 2012 and becoming daily on June 1, 2012.

In September 2007, the United States Department of Transportation tentatively awarded Continental the right to fly to Shanghai from Newark beginning March 25, 2009 using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

In 2013 Thomson Airways will operate the Boeing 787 from the UK to Orlando Sanford beginning in May.

Boeing Airplane Company, though a major manufacturer in a fragmented industry, did not really take off until the beginning of World War II.

With the airline beginning their own scheduled service operated by an Astraeus Boeing 737-500, the airline revealed a new livery at a ceremony in a hangar at Bournemouth Airport.

On 21 October 1998, Tunisair celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its creation, and beginning to retire their Boeing 727s.

Virgin, which began with one route and one Boeing 747 in 1984 was beginning to emerge as a serious threat on some of BA's most lucrative routes.

Twin-engine Boeing 767-300ER over Alaska beginning a trans-Pacific crossing

Before the inerting system rule was proposed, Boeing stated that it would install its own inerting system on airliners it manufactures beginning in 2005.

According to Boeing, CFIT is a leading cause of airplane accidents involving the loss of life, causing over 9, 000 deaths since the beginning of the commercial jet age.

* December 20 – An American Airlines Boeing 757 operating as Flight 965 crashes on a mountainside near Cali, Colombia, minutes before beginning its landing approach.

In October 1963 the airline signed an agreement with Air France, which saw Air Madagascar beginning a service to Paris, via Djibouti, in July 1964 with a Boeing 707, which was painted in Air Madagascar livery, and operated by Air France crews.

Virgin, which began with one route and one Boeing 747 in 1984 was beginning to emerge as a serious threat on some of BA's most lucrative routes.

Virgin, which began with one route and one Boeing 747 in 1984, was beginning to emerge as a serious threat on some of BA's most lucrative routes.

For a short period beginning in late 2003, after all Boeing 727s had been eliminated from the Delta fleet and replaced with the 737-800s, Delta shifted service of its shuttle routes on to 737-300s.

The Chinese frontline fighter aircraft initially were mainly the Curtiss Hawk II and III and the Boeing P-26 model 281, and engaged Japanese fighters in many major air battles beginning on August 14, 1937, when Imperial Japanese Navy warplanes raided Chienchiao airbase ; " 814 " has thus become known as " Air Force Day ".

Continental Airlines began to add LiveTV to all of its Boeing 737 Next Generation and Boeing 757-300 aircraft beginning in January 2009.

The airline also announced that beginning in 2011, they will begin to retire their Yakolev aircraft in favour of new Antonov An-148 or Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Cayman Airways Boeing 737 on the tarmac, Owen Roberts Int ' l Airport Additional renovations completed in 2012 includes refurbishing the departure hall interior and livening up the passport control and customs hall with aquatic paintings and use of an aggressive digital advertising campaign in the baggage claim area.

* WSDOT Economic Impacts: Boeing Field / King County Int ' l ( PDF 437 kb )

* May 8 – Excavations begin at Devonport Naval Base, near Auckland, in search of two Boeing seaplanes – the first two aircraft built by that company – supposedly buried there in 1919.

He was also forced to deal with strikes at Boeing, Inco, and the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation, leading one journalist to describe 1996 as " the busiest year for picketing since the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike ".

Inside the vehicle, authorities found a letter written by Mohamed Atta, a hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 11 ; maps of Washington, D. C. and New York City ; a cashier's check made out to a Phoenix, Arizona flight school ; four drawings of a Boeing 757 cockpit ; a box cutter ; and a page with notes and phone numbers, which contained evidence that led investigators to San Diego.

Aeronautics offers ; airborne systems, related subsystems, Unmanned Aerial Systems ( UAS ) and aerostructures The business area Aeronautics is responsible for airframe structures for JAS 39 Gripen, and whole sections for Airbus, Boeing and NH90.

The museum annex houses an Air France Concorde ; the Enola Gay B-29 ; the Space Shuttle Discovery ; the Boeing 367 – 80, which was the prototype of the Boeing 707 ; the SR-71 ; and other famous aerospace artifacts, particularly those too large for the main building on the National Mall.

* June 3 – Air France Flight 007, a Boeing 707, crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris ; 130 of 132 people on board are killed, 2 flight attendants survive.

* July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet ; 162 people are killed.

** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.

** PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California ; 144 are killed.

Initially, Blake used his Boeing 720 jetliner as a base of operations ; it was outfitted as a mobile residence (" It's like any other mobile home, only faster.

This film is also known under the name Critical Decision, for the Dutch / Belgian market ; Ratkaisun Hetket ( The Moments of Decision ) for Finland ; Ultime Decision, for France ; Décision au sommet, for French Canadian ; the German title was Einsame Entscheidung and Final Decision in South Korea, Krytyczna decyzja in Poland and Boeing 747 v ohrožení ( Boeing 747 in Danger ) in Czech Republic.