Boeing history chronology

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May 1:
Boeing and Alabama leaders officially open the new 363,300-square-foot (126.6-square-meter)
Redstone Gateway complex in Huntsville that will be used for Boeing’s work on NASA’S Space Launch
System and as headquarters for the company’s Strategic Missile & Defense Systems division. The
complex will house 1,400 employees by early 2014.
The battery system improvements for the 787 Dreamliner are approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration, clearing the way for Boeing and its customers to install the approved modifications and
leading to a return to service and resumption of new production deliveries.
Boeing rolls out the first F-15SA for the Royal Saudi Air Force.
A Boeing X-51A WaveRider unmanned hypersonic vehicle achieves the longest air-breathing, scramjetpowered
hypersonic flight in history, flying for three and a half minutes on scramjet power at a top speed
of Mach 5.1.
May 7: Boeing announces it is providing an upgraded communications system for U.S. Air Force B-52
bombers, bringing the workhorse bomber into the digital age.
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June 11:
With the launch of the fourth GPS IIF satellite, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force continue modernizing
the Global Positioning System.
Boeing and Southwest Airlines announce the launch of the 737 MAX 7, the third member of the
737 MAX family, with deliveries to begin in 2019.
Boeing begins final assembly of the first 787-9 Dreamliner, the second member of the
787 Dreamliner family.
Boeing announces that it will establish engineering design centers in Washington state, South Carolina
and Southern California. The centers will operate independently but cooperatively with one another and
with the existing Commercial Airplanes engineering design center in Moscow, Russia.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) flies its first Boeing C-17 Globemaster III to India. Boeing will deliver four more
C-17s to the IAF in 2013 and five in 2014.
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