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The Boeing Red Barn
Courtesy Boeing Museum of Flight.
Edited by David Barth November 2014. Photos are by David Barth.
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |
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| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Historic Aerospace Site. The Red Barn. |
[Plaque placed in] 2003.
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |
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| Boeing Plant #1 Model. |
The "Red Barn," now restored as part of the Museum, was purchased as a boatworks by William E. Boeing in 1910. In 1916 he incorporated his new company with this building as headquarters.
In 1918 a new assembly building was built to fulfill World War I contracts. By 1925, airplanes such as the XPB-1 Flying boat were being designed with a metal replacing wood and fabric. The new technology and a growing business required expansion of Boeing's Plant 1 and additional plant sites over the years. In 1935, final assembly was moved to the new Plant 2 near Boeing Field.
Plant 1 was replaced with updated facilities in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the "Red Barn" was removed from the property for restoration. Plant 1, located near the First Avenue South Bridge, was sold to the Port of Seattle. Today it is used for storage and handling of intermodal containers.
The model, complete with 1925 Model T Fords, shows a 1920s vintage aircraft factory equipped for woodworking, metal forming/fabrication, and laboratory testing. Notice that Plant 1 did not have an adjacent airport as later airplane factories do. Early Boeing airplanes were small and most were seaplanes. They could be taxied, towed, or barged from the plant via the Duwamish River.
This model was built and donated by Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club.
Special thanks to: Bob Bielka, Dan Bray, Warren Castelluccio, Duane Damgaard, Reynold De Jaeger, Don Jelliffe, Phil Johnson, Jim Nichols, Byrom Osborn, Don Satterlee, Don Schoenbachler, Ed Sherry, George Stubbs, John Thompson, Hadley Webster, and Jim Wickham.
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |
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| The Boeing Red Barn. |