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Boeing founder William Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1881

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William Boeing was born in Detroit , Michigan , in 1881 , but died of influenza when he was just 8 years old .

Early in the early 1900s , he applied to a flight school in Los Angeles to learn how to fly.

In 1916 , Boeing co-founder George Conrad Westervelt created the first Boeing aircraft, the Boeing B&W.

Boeing oversaw the development of the GA-2 biplane, the Model 21 seaplane, and the PW-9, along with a host of other aircraft.

In the second half of the 1920s , Boeing found success with the introduction of the mail-delivering Model 40A passenger plane.

William Boeing was awarded the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for aeronautical achievement in 1934 .

The Boeing company produced nearly 100,000 aircraft during World War II .

He and his wife, Bertha , saw the dawn of the Boeing Jet Stratoliner and Stratotanker in 1954 .