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===Boeing Company=== The [[Boeing|Boeing Company]] has facilities at the airport. Final preparations for delivery of [[Boeing 737]] aircraft after the first test flight are made at Boeing Field.<ref>{{cite web |title=Major Production Facilities: Renton, Washington |url=http://www.boeing.com/commercial/facilities/rentonsite.html |publisher=The Boeing Company |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305005032/http://www.boeing.com/commercial/facilities/rentonsite.html |archive-date=March 5, 2009 |access-date=February 22, 2009}}</ref> Boeing facilities at the airport have also included a paint hangar<ref>{{cite press release |date=March 2, 2001 |title=Earthquake Update β Frequently Asked Questions |url=http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2001/q1/news_release_010302f.html |publisher=The Boeing Company |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917175005/http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2001/q1/news_release_010302f.html |archive-date=September 17, 2010 |access-date=February 22, 2009}}</ref> and flight test facilities.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tinseth |first=Randy |title=Boeing Field 1969 |work=Randy's Journal |publisher=Boeing |url=http://www.boeing.com/randy/archives/photos/boeing_field_1969.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905024154/http://www.boeing.com/randy/archives/photos/boeing_field_1969.html |archive-date=September 5, 2008 |access-date=February 22, 2009}}</ref> The initial assembly of the 737 was at Boeing Field in the 1960s because the factory in [[Renton Municipal Airport|Renton]] was at capacity building the [[Boeing 707]] and [[Boeing 727]]. After 271 aircraft, production moved to Renton in late 1970.<ref name="Wallace">{{cite news |last=Wallace |first=James |date=February 12, 2006 |title=Boeing delivers its 5,000th 737 |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Boeing-delivers-its-5-000th-737-1195654.php |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=December 18, 2007 |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214160102/https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Boeing-delivers-its-5-000th-737-1195654.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Gates |first=Dominic |date=December 30, 2005 |title=Successor to Boeing 737 likely to be built in state |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002711126_mulally30.html |work=The Seattle Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502213028/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002711126_mulally30.html |archive-date=May 2, 2007 |access-date=February 10, 2008}}</ref>
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