July 15th 1916
"William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products Co. for $100,000. Boeing buys 998 of the 1,000 stocks issued and moves the operation to the shipyard he bought in 1910. Many years later, this "Red Barn" building is moved to Seattle's Museum of Flight."
<http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/chronology/chron01.page>
The first of William Boeing's flights almost didn't make take off. According to Boeing history, "Conrad Westervelt was posted East before the plane was finished. William Boeing continued the project and, in 1916, completed two B & Ws. When it was time for the B & W's first flight, the pilot was late. Boeing grew impatient and took the controls himself. As the pilot rushed to the hangar, he saw Boeing taxi to the end of the lake, turn, gun the engine and lift off for a quarter-mile hop. Although the loss of Westervelt was a setback, it did not affect Boeing's commitment to his fledgling company." In 1917, the name was changed to the Boeing Airplane Co. <http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/narrative/n003boe.page>
William E. Boeing and pilot Eddie Hubbard flew the first international mail flight to the U.S. on March 3, 1919 from Vancouver, B.C. to Seattle. UW alumnus Clairmont Egtvedt later designed the Model 40 plane that in 1927 won Boeing the contract to deliver mail from San Francisco to Chicago.
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