Introduction
William Edward Boeing Jr. (November 22, 1922 – January 8, 2015) was the son of aviation pioneer William E. Boeing, founder of the Boeing Company. Boeing Jr. was a real estate developer, philanthropist, and former member of the Seattle Museum of Flight board of trustees. In 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics presented Boeing Jr. with a certificate of achievement for his commitment to education and the preservation of air and space history.
Boeing Jr. had fond childhood memories of the Red Barn, the birthplace of the Boeing Company, where he was once given a piece of balsa wood he crafted into a model ship. He did not understand his father's importance until his classmates nicknamed him after one of the Boeing airplanes. In the late 1970s he was instrumental in ensuring that the Red Barn, the oldest airplane manufacturing facility in the U.S., was preserved and integrated into the Seattle Museum of Flight. He died in Seattle on January 8, 2015, aged 92.
In 2014, Boeing Jr. was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
Family
Boeing is survived by his second wife June and predeceased by his father and his two older half-brothers, McDonnell-Douglas executive Nathaniel Paschall III (1912–1979) and Cranston Paschall (1916–1994).
He was also predeceased by son William Boeing III (1953 – December 2013) and first wife, Marcella Cech, who died in 1990.