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  1. William Edward Boeing ( / ˈboʊɪŋ /; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world.

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  2. Company Founder and Owner, President, Chairman of the Board Boeing, 1916-1934. William E. Boeing left Yale University in 1903 to take advantage of opportunities in the risky and cyclical, but financially rewarding, Northwest timber industry. That experience would serve him well in aviation.

  3. In 1909 William E. Boeing, a wealthy lumber entrepreneur who studied at Yale University, became fascinated with airplanes after seeing one at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle.

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  5. William Edward Boeing | National Aviation Hall of Fame. Learning Center Our Enshrinees. Enshrined: 1966. Birth: October 1, 1881. Death: September 28, 1956. William Edward Boeing. 1916, Established the Pacific Airplane Company, which became the Boeing Airplane Company a year later and built its first two planes, both float biplanes.

  6. Mar 8, 2022 · 08 Mar 2022. William Boeing is photographed for a newspaper report on 25 September 1929. Image Credit: Los Angeles Times via Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. William E. Boeing was an American entrepreneur and pioneer in the aviation industry.

  7. Science & Tech. airplane. aircraft. Also known as: aeroplane, plane. Written by. Walter James Boyne. Former director, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983–86. Author of The Leading Edge and many others. Walter James Boyne, James E. Vance. Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley.

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