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Boeing B-1 flying boat airplane, ca. 1919
The B-1 was the first aircraft designed and assembled entirely by the Boeing Airplane Company for commercial rather than military purposes. The hull was made using laminated wood veneer, and the wings were framed with Washington-grown spruce. Beginning in 1920, the plane was used on the first regularly scheduled international airmail route between Seattle and Victoria. The B-1 could carry…
ID Number:1952.552.1
Date:1919
Colorized photograph of Boeing B-1 mail plane on Lake Union, 1919
The B-1 was the first aircraft designed and assembled entirely by the Boeing Airplane Company for commercial rather than military purposes. The hull was made using laminated wood veneer, and the wings were framed with Washington-grown spruce. Eddie Hubbard is best known as the pilot who inaugurated international airmail service between Seattle, Washington to Victoria, British Columbia. Beginning in 1920,…
ID Number:1953.345.b.2
Date:1919
Model airplane, Boeing Jet Stratoliner 707, N-70700, ca. 1954-1970
The Boeing 707 Stratoliner was the first American jetliner ever made. Chief test pilot, A.M. "Tex" Johnston made history when he introduced the 707 to the world by completing an unauthorized "barrel roll" in front of an unsuspecting Seattle hydroplane racing crowd in August 1955.
ID Number:1955.877.1
Date:Circa 1954-1970
US Mail leather flight suit worn by Leon Cuddeback, who flew the first scheduled air mail in the US, ca. 1926
Pilot Leon Cuddeback wore this sheepskin flight suit while delivering mail in the 1920s. On April 6, 1926, Cuddeback made the nation's first regularly scheduled airmail run, flying between Pasco, Washington, and Elko, Nevada, with a fuel stop in Boise, Idaho. Early mail planes, like Cuddeback's single-engine Curtis biplane, had open cockpits. Above 20,000 feet above sea level, temperatures sometimes…
ID Number:1955.977.1C685
Date:Circa 1926
Pale pink net and lace dress, 1940
This dusty pink dress belonged to Catherine Foley Johnson (1894-1961). Catherine was born in Iowa, graduated from the University of Wisconsin, and spent time teaching English in Chicago. In the early 1920s she worked in advertising, first in Seattle and then in New York City. In 1925 she married Philip G. Johnson (1894-1944). Philip was working for the Boeing company…
ID Number:1956.1062.18C618
Date:1940
Model of Bellanca Pacemaker airplane, ca. 1950
This model was built by Albert Kotzerke of Renton, Washington. It is an exact scale replica of, and contains parts from, the original 6 place Bellanca Pacemaker flown in the first commercial round trip from Anchorage to Seattle, piloted by Steve Mills in June 1934. Mills founded Star Air Service in Alaska in 1932, which was one of several air…
ID Number:1956.1120
Date:Circa 1950
British flag presented to pilot Major Frederick L. Martin on the first Round the World flight, 1924
On April 6, 1924, four Douglas World Cruisers, each manned by an Army Air Corps pilot and mechanic, took off from Seattle's Sand Point Field in an attempt to be the first to fly around the world. The four aircraft were named Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and New Orleans. Major Frederick L. Martin (1882-1956) was in the lead aircraft, the Seattle.…
ID Number:1958.1427
Date:1924
Black plastic model of a Boeing AF54-3079 Bomarc IM 99 US Air Force missile, ca. 1955-1960
The supersonic Bomarc missile, launched in 1955, was the first long-range anti-aircraft missile ever made, and the first one that Boeing mass-produced.
ID Number:1960.1996
Date:Circa 1955-1960
Airplane propeller, ca. 1920
Now one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturers, Boeing was incorporated in Seattle in 1916 by William Boeing. This type of propeller was used by Boeing when they started a one-room assembly plant in Seattle. Earl Munger owned this propeller and he was one of the original stockholders in the company. He flew for Boeing in its early years and…
ID Number:1962.2790
Date:Circa 1920
Hamilton propeller from Boeing B-1, 1920-1924
The B-1 was the first aircraft designed and assembled entirely by the Boeing Airplane Company for commercial rather than military purposes. Beginning in 1920, the plane was used on the first regularly scheduled international airmail route between Seattle and Victoria. This propeller made by Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company was used on the Boeing B-1, and there is a consideration that…
ID Number:1963.2886
Date:1920-1924