Alaska Coastal Airlines

1939	Founded as a merger of Alaska Air Transport and Marine Airways. On April 1, 1962 Alaska Coastal Airlines merged with Ellis Air Lines, trading for a while as Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines. Alaska Coastal Airlines was taken over by Alaska Airlines in April 1968.
1927	Boeing created an airline named Boeing Air Transport, which merged a year later with Pacific Air Transport and the Boeing Airplane Company. The first airmail flight for the airline was on July 1, 1927.
1928, July 27	The 12-passenger Boeing 80 biplane made its first flight. With three engines, it was Boeing's first plane built with the sole intention of being a passenger transport.
1929	The company changed its name to United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in 1929 and acquired Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Standard Propeller Company, and Chance Vought.
1929, Sept	The 80A, carrying eighteen passengers, made its first flight.
1930	United Aircraft purchased National Air Transport
1934	The Air Mail Act of 1934 prohibited airlines and manufacturers from being under the same corporate umbrella, so the company split into three smaller companies – Boeing Airplane Company, United Airlines, and United Aircraft Corporation, the precursor to United Technologies.
1960	Vertol Aircraft Corporation was acquired by Boeing in 1960, and was reorganized as Boeing's Vertol division.
1960, Dec	Boeing announced the model 727 jetliner.
1961	The twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook, produced by Vertol, took its first flight in 1961. This heavy-lift helicopter remains a work-horse vehicle up to the present day.
1961	Boeing won a contract to manufacture the S-IC stage of the Saturn V rocket, manufactured at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1964	Vertol also began production of the CH-46 Sea Knight.
1996	Boeing acquired Rockwell's aerospace and defense units. The Rockwell business units became a subsidiary of Boeing, named Boeing North American, Inc.
1997 Aug	Boeing merged with McDonnell Douglas

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