Boeing’s 737 factory at the Renton, Wash., site leads the industry as the most efficient airplane factory in the world. More than 14,500 commercial airplanes (707, 727, 737, and 757) or about 30 percent of the worldwide fleet flying today were built in Renton.

The Boeing Renton Factory is the Boeing Company's manufacturing facility for narrow-body commercial airliners, and their military derivatives. Production includes the Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner and the Boeing P-8 Poseidon military patrol aircraft.

Jun 26, 2022 · The Renton factory is where Boeing produces all of its narrow-body models, including military derivatives such as the P-8 Poseidon, a modified 737-800 that functions as a reconnaissance plane. In the past, Boeing's also built the 707, 727 and 757 in Renton.

Jan 25, 2024 · Boeing’s Renton plant has seen a lot of aviation history come and go in its nearly 80 years of operation. Long before the recent grounding of the Renton-built 737 Max, the factory may have...

Jul 10, 2013 · Renton has produced an astonishing total of over 15,000 aircraft making it one of the most prolific aircraft factories, and the most prolific jetliner factory in history. With approximately 5,600 737s in service, 25% of the world’s large jet fleet (non RJ) are Boeing 737s.

Dec 10, 2024 · Jet production has been halted in the Pacific Northwest since September, when unionized machinists went on strike. RENTON, Wash. — Boeing announced Tuesday the company has restarted production of...

Jul 27, 2023 · About a year and a half after its ungrounding, Insider toured Boeing's Renton factory to learn more about the 737 MAX final assembly line — take a look.

Boeing considered a number of things including closing Renton and moving 737 production to the large, and largely soon to be unused former 717 factory at Long Beach, California that Boeing had acquired in the 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas.

Jan 25, 2024 · Boeing’s Renton factory where the 737 MAX is assembled shut down for 15 hours Thursday as workers spent the day discussing ways to improve compliance and quality assurance on its production lines.

May 8, 2017 · In April 1942 Boeing opened a factory in Renton, and over the past 75 years it has produced some of the greatest advancements in aviation including the most technologically advanced airplane of World War II, the world’s first tankers, the world’s first successful commercial jet and one of the most advanced production systems in the world.