Thousands watch the rollout of the first B-52D Stratofortress at Beoing Wichita on December 7, 1955. There was a simulatneous rollout of the B-47E shown in the background. A total of 1390 B-47s were built at Boeing Wichita.
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Boeing Wichita flight line in 1967 where modification work was done on many commercial airliners.
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The Stearman company in Wichita was predecessor to Boeing.
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A 1954 photo of the Boeing Airplane Company.
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Boeing workers autograph a poster marking the roll out of the forward section and strut of the first 767-400 ER produced at the Wichita plant in 1999.
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Boeing retirees married more than 50 years shared a table at their valentine party in 1999.
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Paula Franklin works inside a Boeing 777 cab section under construction at Boeing Wichita in 2004.
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Boeing workers listen to Rev. Jesse Jackson, far right, at the Wichita Plant II in 1998.
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Jason DeHaven waits for results of a vote by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers on at the union's lodge across from the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kan., late Friday, Sept. 13, 2002. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Derrick Caldwell prepares to hang up an airplane from the ceiling of the Boys & Girls Club at 21st & Grove. The styrofoam plane acknowledges Boeing as being a sponsor for the club in 1995.
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The fuselage of the final Boeing 757 sits in the factory at Boeing Wichita in 2004.
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Dennis Hastert (R), Speaker of the House, and U.S Rep. Todd Tiahrt (middle) get a tour of a Boeing 767 and tanker modification site at Boeing Wichita by Bob Gower (L) Boeing vice president of the 767 tanker program. The 767 in the background is undergoing modification into a refueling tanker for the Italian Air Force at Boeing Wichita. Tiahrt invited Hastert to the Wichita facility which will receive more 767 tanker modification work if U.S. Air Force tanker lease program is approved by Congress. 2003
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Senator Pat Roberts holds up the General Accountability Office decision at a press conference in 2008 at Boeing.
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Boeing Wichita employees sign a banner celebrating the rollout of its first Boeing 757 fuselage sections in 2002.
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Union members stand outside of Century II Convention Center holding signs that urge fellow members to reject Boeing's proposed contract in 2002.
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Boeing workers celebrate as Boeing Wichita rolled out it's first 757 fuselage section in 2002.
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In 2000 C.C. Briscoe touched the skin of 'Doc', one of the many B-29's built in the Wichita Boeing plant in WWII. Briscoe worked on the B-29 project in the war.
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Doc, a partially restored B-29 Super Fortress, moves from a Boeing hangar to The Aviation Museum in south Wichita, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007.
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A cover on a Boeing 767 engine marks the first of the models to be brought in to Boeing Wichita to be converted into a refueling tanker in 2003.
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The sign outside of the Machinist's Union by Boeing on MacArthur Road in 2005.
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Employees of Boeing gather near the first 767 brought in to be converted into a refueling tanker for the Italian Air Force. Boeing held a ceremony in 2003 to celebrate the first 767 conversion.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to Boeing workers assembled in the Plant II building in 1998.
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Boeing workers attend a ceremony marking the roll out of the forward section and strut of the first 767-400 ER produced at the Wichita plant in 1999.
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Boeing employees Larry Saunders, left, and Ted Whiteside hang a banner on the wall inside the Boeing administration building in 2004. Boeing announced during a press conference Tuesday that they were bought by Onex.
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Boeing workers, James Rudisell, left, Rod Slack and Greg Hansard walk the picket lines outside the Boeing plant on south Oliver in 2005.
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Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, speaks to the media and Boeing workers during a press conference in 2008. The General Accountability Office had announced that the contract terms that caused Boeing to lose a tanker contract that was awarded to Airbus, were unfair.
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Congressman Todd Tiahrt, is applauded as he steps up to speak at a press conference in 2008 at Boeing.
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Senator Pat Roberts, left, congressman Todd Tiahrt, middle and senator Sam Brownback congratulate each other at a press conference in 2008 at Boeing.
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Sen. Pat Roberts, Governor Sam Brownback and Todd Tiahrt, right to left, joke about the good fortune for Kansas before a press conference in 2011 announcing Boeing new contract with the U.S. Air Force to build the next generation of refueling jets. T
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Former congressman Todd Tiahrt shakes hands with Boeing's General Manager & Wichita Site Leader Steven Wade after the press conference announcing Boeing contract with the Air Force at Boeing in 2011.
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U.S. Congressman Mike Pompeo, Governor Sam Brownback, Sen. Pat Roberts and former congressman Todd Tiahrt, right to left, address the media on Boeing's contract with the U.S. Air Force to build the next generation of refueling tankers in 2011 at Boeing.
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