Boeing history chronology

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1982 Hughes Helicopters MD 500 commercial helicopter and MD 530F make their first flights.
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The U.S. Air Force directs Rockwell International to begin production of 100 B-1B bombers.
Boeing designs a solar power satellite system capable of providing power to a million homes.
The Boeing 757-200 makes its first flight.
Hughes Helicopters breaks ground for the Apache Assembly and Flight Test Center in Mesa, Ariz.
The facility will be dedicated and become operational in December.
Rockwell International wins contract to build HELLFIRE missiles and launchers.
Boeing Computer Services installs a companywide telecommunications network.
The first McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet is delivered to the Canadian Forces Air Command.
The Douglas Aircraft division of McDonnell Douglas delivers its 2,000th jet airliner, a DC-10 built
for United Airlines.
NASA launches the first Boeing IUS. It places two communications satellites in orbit.
A new designation system for McDonnell Douglas commercial aircraft combines the “M” of
McDonnell and the “D” of Douglas. The first aircraft to use the designation is the DC-9 Super
80, which now becomes the MD-80.
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