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Boeing and Liquid Robotics, an unmanned ocean vehicles company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. and
Kamuela, Hawaii, sign a global multi-year teaming agreement for collaboration on product development,
maritime services and operational deployments.
Boeing delivers the first new-build MH-47G configured Chinook helicopter to the U.S. Army Special
Operations Aviation Command.
Boeing celebrates the groundbreaking of its new 1 million-square-foot (92,903-square-meter) 777X
Composite Wing Center in Everett, Wash.
Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China open a demonstration facility that will turn waste
cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel.
Boeing donates one of one of the original 787-8 Dreamliner flight test airplanes to the Museum of
Flight in Seattle.
Boeing mates two 702SP (small platform) satellites in a stacked configuration in preparation for the firstever
conjoined satellite launch.
Boeing starts final assembly of the 787-9 Dreamliner at its South Carolina facility. The North Charleston,
S.C., site joins Boeing’s Everett, Wash., final assembly, which began 787-9 production in May 2013.
Boeing and Ryanair finalize an order for 100 737 MAX 200s, valued at $11 billion at list prices.
Boeing powers its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight test airplane with a blend of 15 percent “green diesel,” a
sustainable biofuel that is widely available and used in ground transportation, and 85 percent petroleum
jet fuel in the left engine, completing the world’s first flight using green diesel.
Boeing begins construction on a new 367,000-square-foot (34,095-square-meter) facility in St. Louis in
which it will build parts for the 777X. The facility will employ about 700 people.
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force successfully complete the first flight of the KC-46 tanker test program.
The plane, a Boeing 767-2C, takes off from Paine Field, Wash., at 9: 29 a.m. (PST) and lands three
hours, 32 minutes later at Boeing Field.
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