Boeing

The Boeing Company
Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: BA; Dow Jones Component ; S&P 500 Component
Headquarters	Boeing International Headquarters; Chicago, Illinois, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Commercial airliners; Military aircraft ; Weapons ; Space systems ; Computer services
Total equity	US$ 3.608 billion (2011)
Subsidiaries	Aviall, Inc. ; CDG ; Jeppesen ; Boeing Aircraft Holding Company ; Boeing Australia ; Boeing Canada ; Boeing Defence UK ; Boeing Store ; Narus ; Spectrolab
Website	www.boeing.com

The Boeing Company (how to say: /ˈboʊ.ɪŋ/ BOH-ing) (NYSE: BA Archived 2013-09-17 at the Wayback Machine) is an American company which makes aircraft and defense items. The company was started in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington.

Boeing has grown to become very big. It bought it's main rival, McDonnell Douglas, in 1997. Boeing moved it's headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, Illinois in 2001.^[2]

Boeing is made up of many smaller parts. These parts are called divisions. The divisions are Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA); Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS); Engineering, Operations & Technology; Boeing Capital; and Boeing Shared Services Group.

Boeing is one of the biggest aircraft manufacturers in the world. It is the second-biggest defense contractor in the world as of 2011.^[3]

The CEO is (as of the middle of April 2024) David Calhoun.^[4]

Boeing Media

Assembly of a 737 in the Boeing Renton Factory
Final assembly of a Boeing 737 airplane, 1975
PK-LQP, the Lion Air aircraft involved
ET-AVJ, the Ethiopian Airlines aircraft involved
N704AL, the Alaska Airlines aircraft involved
Boeing Everett Factory, the assembly facility for most of the company's wide-body aircraft
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and US President Donald Trump at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony in 2017
The F-15S/SA jetfighters are one of the major combatants that Boeing has sold to the Saudi Arabia. The aircraft are heavily utilized in the Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war.