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Development Period of Boeing



Structure of the Boeing Company

According to Boeing historical documents the company was founded in 1916 by William Boeing, who bought almost three quarters of the shares of Pacific Aero Products and has integrated his manufacturing therein. The following year, Pacific Aero Products has been renamed as Boeing Airplane Co. In 1927, was created a new division Boeing Air Transport (BAT), their own airline transport, as a result of winning the contract with American Post Office to deliver mail. Together with the engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney, Boeing established in 1929 United Aircraft and Transport Corp (UATC) in which have been integrated the two divisions of the company: Boeing Airplane Co. and Boeing Air Transport. This new structure of the company included engines manufacturers, aircraft components manufacturers and airlines (airlines business), in order to enter on all aviation market, both civil and military aviation. The new structure has operated until 1934 when the antitrust legislation was introduced, and did not allowed aircraft manufacturers to hold airlines. Therefore UATC has been divided in three entities: United Air Lines (responsible for air transport), United Aircraft (responsible for production operations in the eastern United States, renamed United Technologies) and Boeing Airplane Co. (responsible for production operations in the West, including Stearman Aircraft and Boeing Aircraft of Canada, as mentioned in Boeing History. The company created in 1958 Boeing Scientific Research Laboratory (Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories) and in 1959 Aerospace Division (Aerospace Division). To face to the recession of the 1970s, the company has oriented to new areas and has established new divisions like Boeing Computer Services and Boeing Engineering and Construction. Between 1986-1988 space and defense units merged and formed Boeing Defense & Space Group, along with the other two major divisions of the company: Boeing Commercial Airplane Group and Boeing Computer Services. In 2001 the company integrated the Boeing Defense & Space Group and Boeing Computer Services in a single division called Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing History. In 1996, The Boeing Company merged with the defense and space divisions of Rockwell International Company. The two units were combined into a single subsidiary, Boeing North American, Inc. A year later the new component of the North American Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas Inc. Corp. Boeing purchased in 2000, three units of the company Hughes Electronics Corp.: Hughes Space and Communications Co., Hughes Electron Dynamics, and SPECTROLAB Inc. that were integrated into Boeing Satellite Systems, a subsidiary of the company that later became part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems formed in 2001 by merging several units of the company. In 2011, Boeing Satellite System changed its name into Boeing Defense, Space & Security.