In 1966, the Boeing Co. committed to make a jetliner to dwarf every other passenger plane in the sky — the 747. The company chose a wooded area north of Paine Field in Everett for a new factory and began manufacturing the big plane there in 1967. These images chronicle the 50 years since the plant opened. Read the story
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