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The Boeing Company is an aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with production facilities near Seattle. The company began as B & W, founded by William Boeing[?] in 1915, and changed its name to the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917.

Boeing's many varieties of aircraft are listed here:

Commercial aircraft	Fighters and Bombers
Boeing 707 (a variant was the model 720) Boeing 717 (evolved from the Douglas DC-9 series) Boeing 727 Boeing 737 Boeing 747 Boeing 757 Boeing 767 Boeing 777 MD-11 Boeing Business Jet[?] (a corporate version of a model 737) Boeing 2707 (the proposed American SST, never completed)	B-17 Flying Fortress AV-8 Harrier II B-1 Lancer B-2 Spirit B-52 Stratofortress F-4 Phantom II F-15 Eagle F/A-18 Hornet see also Blue Angels aerobatic team F/A-18EF Super Hornet F/A-22 Raptor
Airlift and Tankers	Surveillance and Other Military
767 Tanker-Transport[?] Aerial Refueling Tanker[?] C-17 Globemaster III C-40A Navy Airlift Aircraft[?] E-3 Sentry often called the AWACS, although strictly speaking that term is a generic one KC-10 Extender[?] KC-135 Stratotanker VC-25A "Air Force One"	Airborne Laser Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) C-32A Executive Transport[?] E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post[?] E-6 TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) T-43 Cargo Trainer[?] T-45 Training System[?] Wedgetail 737-700 AEW[?] X-36 Tailless Agility Research Aircraft[?]

Boeing is also a major aerospace manufacturer. Some of its notable space-related products are listed here:

Propulsion and Payload Delivery Systems	Satellites
Crew Return Vehicle[?] Delta rocket[?] Inertial Upper Stage[?] International Space Station MAGLEV[?] Sea Launch[?] Solar Orbit Transfer Vehicle[?] Space Shuttle	Adv. Research and Global Observation Satellite[?] GPS Satellites Integrated Solar Upper Stage[?] Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Weapon System[?] XSS Micro-satellite[?]

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