William E. Boeing Jr.
William E. Boeing, Jr. (born 1922, died 2015) is the son of aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. Boeing Jr. is a real estate developer,[1] philanthropist, and former member of the Seattle Museum of Flight board of trustees. In 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented Boeing Jr. with a certificate of achievement for his commitment to education and the preservation of air and space history.[2]
Boeing, Jr. has fond childhood memories of the Red Barn, the birthplace of the Boeing Company, where he was once given a piece of balsa wood he crafted into a model ship. But he did not understand his father's importance until his classmates nicknamed him after one of the Boeing airplanes.[3] In the late 1970s he was instrumental in ensuring that the Red Barn, the oldest airplane manufacturing facility in the U.S., was preserved and integrated into the Seattle Museum of Flight.[4]
References
- ^ "William Boeing Jr ready to close on Kent land deal". Seattle Times. December 28, 1992. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ AIAA 2010-2011 Annual Report
- ^ Wong, Brad (June 16, 2005). "Boeing Jr. shares dad's story". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ^ "Boeing's Red Barn an official historic site". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. May 1, 2003. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
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