Boeing "Model C" float plane docked on Lake Union, Seattle, 1919

• Main Author: Webster & Stevens
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1919
• Subjects: Biplanes > American > Washington (State) > Seattle Boeing Company. Commercial Airplane Division Lakes & ponds > Washington (State) > Seattle Seaplanes > Washington (State) > Seattle; Brooklyn; Detroit; Ewing; Pacific; Union Lake; Yukon; Zimmerman; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/15291

Aviation pioneer William Edward "Bill" Boeing (1881-1956) was born in Detroit to German immigrants. He came to Seattle in 1908, where, during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909, he saw a manned flying machine for the first time and became fascinated with aircraft. With a partner,...