William E. Boeing Jr.

William E. 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,[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. 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.[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] He died in Seattle on January 8, 2015, aged 92.[5]

In 2014, Boeing Jr. was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.[6]

Family

Boeing is survived by his second wife June and predeceased by his father and his two older half-brothers, McDonnell-Douglas executive Nathaniel Paschall III (1912–1979) and Cranston Paschall (1916–1994).

He was also predeceased by son William Boeing III (1953-December 2013) and first wife, Marcella Cech, who died in 1990.

References

  1. ↑ "William Boeing Jr ready to close on Kent land deal". Seattle Times. December 28, 1992. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ AIAA 2010–2011 Annual Report
  3. ↑ Wong, Brad (June 16, 2005). "Boeing Jr. shares dad's story". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Boeing's Red Barn an official historic site". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. May 1, 2003. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  5. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2015/01/william-boeing-jr-son-of-boeing-co-founder-dies-at.html
  6. ↑ Sprekelmeyer, Linda, editor. These We Honor: The International Aerospace Hall of Fame. Donning Co. Publishers, 2006. ISBN 978-1-57864-397-4.

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