* C-17 History page on Boeing. com

* Boeing History of Air Force One

* Boeing History: Philip G. Johnson

* 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

* 1975 – A privately chartered Boeing 707 crashes into the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

* 1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.

* 1967 – The first Boeing 737 ( a 100 series ) makes its maiden flight.

# McDonnell Douglas ( now Boeing ) F / A-18A-D Hornet – November 1986 – present.

* 1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.

* 2009 – Boeing's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.

* 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.

* 1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on board.

* 1999 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error.

Cooper boarded the aircraft, a Boeing 727 – 100 ( FAA registration N467US ), and took seat 18C ( 18E by some accounts, 15D by another ) in the rear of the passenger cabin.

* 1995 – American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160.

* 1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.

* 1989 – An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Pico Alto mountain in the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, killing 144.

* 1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.

* 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden " flight " on top of a Boeing 747.

* 1995 – The long-range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.

* 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.

* 1985 – A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

* 1931 – United Airlines begins service ( as Boeing Air Transport ).

* 2002 – A Bashkirian Airlines ( flight 2937 ) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL ( German cargo ) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.

* 2012 – The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental jumbo jet aircraft is introduced with Lufthansa.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.

The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

* 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first " jumbo jet ", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

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.

* 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.

Following the " peace dividend " after the fall of the Soviet bloc, the company sold its defense and aerospace business, including what was once North American Aviation and Rocketdyne, to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in December 1996.

* North American Rockwell history on Boeing. com

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

American B-17 Flying Fortress | Boeing B-17E.

* August 15 – Beverly Lynn Burns, American pilot, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747

* October 1 – William Boeing, American engineer and airplane manufacturer ( d. 1956 )

** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.

The prime contractor for the program was North American Aviation ( later Rockwell International, now Boeing ), the same company responsible for building the Apollo Command / Service Module.

Upon boarding United 175, Shehhi and 4 other hijackers waited 30 minutes into the flight to make their attack, which then allowed Shehhi to take over control as pilot, and at 9: 03 a. m., 17 minutes after Mohamed Atta crashed American 11 into the North Tower, 23-year-old Shehhi crashed the Boeing 767 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

The 1997 merger of American corporations Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, which followed the forming of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defence contractor in 1995, increased the pressure on European defence companies to consolidate.

Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure.

Mars Needs Women is padded with long sequences taken from stock footage ( the North American X-15 spacecraft being launched from its Boeing NB-52B Stratofortress mother ship and General Dynamics F-111 fighter-bomber in particular ).

Though LeMay lost significant appropriation battles for the Skybolt ALBM and the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress replacement, the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, he was largely successful at expanding Air Force budgets.

In 1948, Curtiss-Wright delivered a trainer for the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser transport aircraft to Pan American.

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 addition to their original 757s, North American also operates Boeing 767s for long-range, high-density charter flights.