APRIL 2015 25 Everett WASHINGTON Troutdale Columbia River Insitu PORTLAND OREGON Wilsonville SEATTLE AT A GLANCE: Boeing in Oregon In addition to its well-known and busy Portland manufacturing plant, Boeing has operations in Oregon for painting some of its commercial jetliners, testing unmanned aircraft systems, and providing parts and software. At Portland International Airport, Boeing leases two hangars and employs 13 people to paint 777s and occasionally 787s, 767s and 747s. The site, which serves as an overflow paint facility to those in Everett, Wash., turned out 63 freshly coated airplanes this past year. Located between Portland International and the airport in Troutdale, Ore., is the Aviall Customer Service Center, a Boeing subsidiary and one of 40 Aviall sites worldwide. Aviall employs eight people and provides a wide selection of parts such as batteries, brakes, wheels and hoses. “We’re like an auto-parts store, only for airplanes,” said Rich Teza, an Aviall vice president based in Dallas. The Portland suburb of Wilsonville is home to an office of Jeppesen, a Boeing subsidiary with a workforce of 49 local employees who develop flight-planning software and other personal-computer applications. To the east of Oregon’s largest city, and located along the banks of the Columbia River, are several sites for Insitu, another Boeing subsidiary. (See story, Page 16.) Consisting of 800 employees, Insitu builds and tests ScanEagle and Integrator unmanned aircraft systems at sites spread throughout Washington and Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge region. n
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