23.02.2010 :: Continental Airlines Names Plane in Honor of Captain Marlon Green, Who Broke Racial Barriers in Pilot Hiring
Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) named one of its aircraft in honor of its late Capt. Marlon Green, who won a landmark legal battle to become the first African American pilot hired by a major U.S. passenger airline, in a special ceremony at Bush Intercontinental Airport today.
12.09.2007 :: Boeing Wins $1.1 Billion KC-135 Tanker Maintenance Contract
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a 10-year, $1.1 billion U.S. Air Force contract to continue providing programmed depot maintenance (PDM) for the nation's KC-135 Stratotanker fleet. Boeing will perform the work for more than 200 KC-135 aircraft at facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
01.06.2007 :: Boeing Delivers First C-17 to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today delivered the first of 13 C-17 Globemaster IIIs to Dover (Del.) Air Force Base (AFB) officials during a ceremony at the company's Long Beach, Calif., C-17 manufacturing facility.
