Dash 80 Rollout

First Dash 80

Dash 80 First Flight Takeoff

Dash 80 in Flight

Dash 80 First Flight Takeoff

Dash 80 in Hangar

Dash 80 Engine Maintenance

The Dash 80 in Flight

Tex Johnston in the Flight Deck of the Dash 80

Dash 80 Rollout

Dash 80 in Flight Over City

Restored Dash 80

Dash 80 in Flight

Dash 80, Prototype of the 707, Takes its First Flight

Dash 80 Underside on Ground

Dash 80 First Flight Crew, Tex Johnston, Bert Binegar, and Dix Loesch in the Flight Deck

Dash 80 in Flight

Dash 80 with 707 in Flight Test Hangar

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Dash 80 First Flight Takeoff

Forerunner of the more than 8,000 Boeing jetliners built since its rollout May 14, 1954, the prototype of the KC-135 Stratotanker and the Model 707 jet transport was nicknamed the ''Dash 80.'' It served 18 years as a flying test laboratory before it was turned over to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in May 1972. In May 1990, under an arrangement with the Smithsonian, Boeing returned the airplane to Seattle for full restoration. It made a special flyover of the five Boeing facilities in the Puget Sound area on July 15, 1991, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of The Boeing Company and the 37 th anniversary of its own first flight. The airplane is now on view at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington.

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Unique identifier BI212544

Boeing ID e316

Type Image

Size 5100px × 3950px 19MB

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