Boeing was making 737 Max jets this summer alongside older model 737 Next Generation jets on Renton's three production lines. But Renton's 12,500 workers will make 737 Maxes almost exclusively ...

Boeing is able to build the 737 in nine days, which is an impressive turnaround time. However, the 747 took a lot longer to finish. Here's why.

RENTON, Wash. — A new chief executive takes over at Boeing on Thursday, and he plans to walk the floor of the factory near Seattle that has become the heart of the aerospace giant's troubles.

For the first time since the Alaska door plug blowout, Boeing brought reporters into the Boeing 737 MAX factory in Renton, Washington. According to the explanation from Boeing officials, the ...

RENTON, Wash. — Boeing assembles the 737 in a massive factory here that can hold more than a dozen unfinished planes, with their shiny green fuselages lined up nose to tail.

Boeing workers picket after union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract offer and go on strike Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, outside the company's factory in Renton, Wash.

Boeing workers picket after union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract offer and go on strike Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, outside the company's factory in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey ...

In March, a team captain at the Renton factory told NTSB investigators: "Sometimes morale, right, can be low. We have a lot of turnover specifically because, you know, this can be a stressful job." ...

As dozens of jets sit unfinished in Renton and at Boeing Field, workers and suppliers are worried about a production stoppage and remembering 737 manufacturing woes that froze the line 21 years ago.

Edward Pierson, who was a senior manager at Boeing’s Renton, Washington, factory, said a push to increase production of the 737 Max from 47 a month to 52, created a “factory in chaos.” ...

Solomon Hammond, 33, left, and John Olson, 45, right, both toolmakers at Boeing's Renton factory, hold picket signs after union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract offer and go on ...