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With a heritage that mirrors the first 100 years of flight, The Boeing Company provides products and services to customers in 145 countries.

Boeing has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for more than 40 years and is a global market leader in military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services. Total company revenues for 2003 were $50.5 billion.

Boeing continues to expand its product line and develop new technologies to meet customer needs. Creating new models for its family of commercial airplanes; developing, producing, supporting and modifying aircraft for the U.S. military; building launch vehicles capable of lifting more than 14 tons into orbit; and improving communications for people around the world through an advanced network of satellites, Boeing is carrying forward a long tradition of technical excellence and innovation.

Boeing employs nearly156,000 people in 70 countries and 48 states within the United States, with major operations in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, southern California, Wichita and St. Louis.

Boeing is organized into four major business units:

1- Boeing Capital Corporation,

2- Boeing Commercial Airplanes,

3- Connexion by BoeingSM,

4- Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

Supporting these units is the Boeing Shared Services Group, which contributes common services and efficient infrastructure services that enable the company's business units to concentrate on profitable growth. In addition, Phantom Works provides advanced research and development, including advanced concepts for air traffic management. Phantom Works partners with the company's business units to identify technology needs and address them with innovative and affordable solutions.

Boeing has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for more than 40 years. With the McDonnell Douglas merger in 1997, Boeing's legacy of leadership in commercial jets now is joined with the lineage of Douglas airplanes, giving the combined company a 70-year heritage of leadership in commercial aviation.

Today, the main commercial products consist of the 717, 737, 747, 767 and 777 families of airplanes, and the Boeing Business Jet. New product development efforts are focused on the Boeing 7E7, a super-efficient airplane that is expected to be in service in 2008.

The company has nearly 13,000 commercial jetliners in service worldwide, which is roughly 75 percent of the world fleet.

And through Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, the company provides unsurpassed, round-the-clock technical support to help operators maintain their airplanes in peak operating condition; further, through Commercial Aviation Services, Boeing offers a full range of world-class engineering, modification, logistics and information services to its global customer base, which includes the world's passenger and cargo airlines as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities.

Boeing also trains maintenance and flight crews in the 100-seat-and-above airliner market through Alteon, the world's largest and most comprehensive provider of airline training.

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems provides end-to-end services for large-scale systems that combine sophisticated communication networks with air-, land-, sea- and space-based platforms for global military, government and commercial customers.

The company offers an extraordinary range of defense and space systems products and services. It designs, produces, modifies and supports fighters, bombers, transports, rotorcraft, aerial refuelers, missiles and munitions and is on the leading edge of military technology through its unmanned systems development efforts.

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems also supports the U.S. government on several programs of national significance, including the Missile Defense Agency's Ground-Based Midcourse Defense program, the National Reconnaissance Office's Future Imagery Architecture, the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program and NASA's International Space Station.

The company has become the systems integrator for several new programs, including the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems and Joint Tactical Radio Systems, the Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals for the Department of Defense, and the Explosive Detection Systems for the Department of Transportation.

Shared Services Group allows business units to focus on profitable growth by providing the infrastructure services required to run their global operations.

The group provides a broad range of services worldwide, including computing and network operations, e-business, facilities services, employee benefits and programs, security, transportation, and the purchase of all non-production goods and services.

It also gives direction to safety, health and environmental planning and offers comprehensive travel services to Boeing employees and corporate customers through the Boeing Travel Management Company.

In addition, Shared Services Group manages the sale and acquisition of all leased and owned property through the Boeing Realty Company. By integrating services, Shared Services Group delivers greater value, creates "lean" processes and operations, leverages buying power and simplifies access to services.

Connexion by Boeing is a mobile information services provider revolutionizing the way people on the move communicate and inform and entertain themselves.

It does so by providing real-time, high-speed, two-way Internet-based connectivity to mobile platforms. Connexion by Boeing serves three important market segments: commercial aircraft operators and their passengers; executive aircraft, including operators of private and government executive jets; and the maritime market. Using laptops or personal digital assistants (PDAs), passengers can enjoy secure high-speed access to the Internet, personal and business e-mail accounts, and company intranets.

They also are able to send and receive attachments and view entertainment - all at DSL-like speeds. Connexion by Boeing's value extends beyond passenger services. The service also brings value to aircraft operators, enabling them to use Connexion by Boeing's extraordinary bandwidth to obtain operational efficiencies, improve customer service and enhance security.

A worldwide network of ground stations and round-the-clock customer care supports the service. In the United States, the Connexion by Boeing service is currently available to the executive services market, including operators of private and government aircraft. Internationally, it's available to select transatlantic routes for Lufthansa.

Commercial airline passengers were first introduced to the service in the first quarter of 2003, when both Lufthansa and British Airways conducted three-month service demonstrations.

In addition to Lufthansa - the launch customer for the service - All Nippon Airways, China Airlines, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Scandinavian Airlines System and Singapore Airlines have announced plans to equip long-range jetliners in their fleets with Connexion by Boeing service. Full-scale launch of the service occurred in May 2004 on transatlantic routes.

Boeing Capital Corporation is a global provider of financing solutions, with a primary mission of supporting the other Boeing business units.

Working closely with Commercial Airplanes and Integrated Defense Systems, Boeing Capital arranges, structures and/or provides financing to facilitate the sale and delivery of Boeing commercial and military aircraft, satellites and launch vehicles.

With a portfolio of more than $10 billion, Boeing Capital combines Boeing's financial strength and global reach, detailed knowledge of Boeing customers and equipment, and the expertise of a seasoned group of financial professionals.

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