The B&W is pulled up ramp at the  Lake Union seaplane hangar.  (The Museum of Flight)

Conrad Westervelt  (The Museum of Flight)

Eddie Hubbard and William Boeing with the Boeing Model C following completion of the first international airmail flight, March 3, 1919. (Boeing Archives)

The Rainier Club (MOHAI)

A sharply attired Bill poses for the camera. (San Diego Air & Space Museum)

The Boeing Company's original manufacturing plant as it appeared in 1917. (The Museum of Flight)

A Boeing 80A in Burbank, California (Museum of Flight)

The Boeing P-26 "Peashooter" helped usher in the era of all metal monoplane aircraft design in the 1930s. (San Diego Air & Space Museum)

The Boeing 247 introduced many innovation we now take for granted like retractable landing gear and fully cantilevered wings. (San Diego Air & Space Museum)

The massive Boeing 314 flying boat was an icon of the Golden Age of passenger flight. (Library of Congress)

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a mainstay of American air power during WWII. (National Archives)

First flown in 1952, the B-52 has surpassed sixty years of continuous service and is expected to serve into the 2040s. (San Diego Air & Space Museum)

The Dash 80 flies over the Olympic Penninsula on its way to the Smithsonian in 2003 (Joe Parke)

Boeing has built over 8,960 737's since the first one rolled off the line in 1966. As of 2006, there were an average of 1,250 Boeing 737's airborne at any given time, with two departing or landing somewhere every five seconds. (Boeing)

The rollout of the prototype 747 in 1969. (Boeing Archives)

Past and Present. The prototype 787 flies formation with the Addison Pemberton's Model 40. This Model 40 is the oldest airworthy Boeing aircraft. (Boeing Images)