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The Boeing Everett Factory, officially the Everett Production Facility, is an airplane assembly facility operated by Boeing in Everett, Washington, United States. It sits on the north side of Paine Field and includes the largest building in the world by volume at over 472 million cubic feet (13,400,000 m 3 ), which covers 98.3 acres (39.8 ha).
Boeing was founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington, on July 15, 1916. [8] The present corporation is the result of the merger of Boeing with McDonnell Douglas on August 1, 1997. As of 2023, the Boeing Company's corporate headquarters is located in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. [9]
Paine Field is home to the Boeing Everett Factory, the world's largest building by volume, and the primary assembly location for Boeing's wide-body 767 and 777, although the facility also produced the 747 and the 787, with the former ending production in 2022 [11] and the latter being moved to Boeing South Carolina in March 2021.
In an interview in February 2015, the centenarian co-founder Richard Henning, who retired in 1979 as a Boeing Executive remarked, “It’s a smart idea to have an organization speak for an individual instead of one on one. In the old days, if you sat down to negotiate with the chief of engineering it was pretty difficult to express ideas.
Boeing Machinists Union member Nico Padilla, front, and others wave to passing traffic on the picket line at the Everett plant, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
He said efforts by Boeing executives to boost production at the company's Los Angeles-area military and commercial satellite plant have led to a "toxic culture" that has put workers there in danger.
Boeing Everett Factory; Boeing Field; Boeing Plant 1; Boeing Plant 2; Boeing Renton Factory; Boeing South Carolina; M. Michoud Assembly Facility; U. United States Air ...
Boeing has more than 66,000 employees who live and work in Washington state on programs like the MAX, 767 and 777 widebody jets, representing the largest percentage of the company's global ...