William E. Boeing Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam E. Boeing Jr.
American businessman
Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1922
Date of Death: 08-Jan-2015
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About William E. Boeing Jr.
- William Edward Boeing Jr.
- (November 22, 1922 – January 8, 2015) was the son of aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company.
- Boeing Jr.
- was a real estate developer, 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.Boeing Jr.
- had 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.
- He did not understand his father's importance until his classmates nicknamed him after one of the Boeing airplanes.
- 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.
- He died in Seattle on January 8, 2015, aged 92.In 2014, Boeing Jr.
- was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
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