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TIL that William E. Boeing bought the Heath Shipyard in Seattle in 1910 and transformed the boatyard into his first airplane factory. Working from a tent hangar, his first plane - the Boeing Model 1 - was built from spruce and canvas by former shipwrights and took flight in 1916.

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