Fly DC Jets Sign - Fan Page

08/08/2016

It's about time and something we've known all along!! CAVU* skies to everyone!! Yay!!!!!!

A city commission this week will discuss whether to designate the iconic neon “Fly DC Jets” sign on the former Boeing 717 building in Long Beach as a historic landmark. The former Douglas Company plant played a “transforma

08/08/2016

Related from 2014: The last C-17 is built in LGB. :(

LONG BEACH >> Linda Foster pressed her pneumatic glue gun against two metal plates and painted a ribbon of black sealant along the last major airplane wing that will be produced in the Boeing C-17 factory in Long Beach.Foster is one of 22

11/30/2015

It's a sad day for Long Beach friends...the last one. I have many happy memories of Boeing LGB. Sadder still, for the 400 people who have lost their jobs.

The last Boeing C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane built at the company’s Long Beach plant departed from the facility Sunday, closing an important era for aircraft manufacturing in California.

09/01/2013

Thanks to Olivier for this awesome news!!!

Mercedes-Benz USA is expected to take over an old aircraft manufacturing plant in Long Beach, Calif.

01/26/2013

What an absolutely fantastic photo!! Thanks Tom Underhill!!

Love this neon.

03/03/2012

03/03/2012

Boeing 717 Manufacturing Plant!

03/03/2012

On May 23, 2006, Boeing delivered its final two 717 airplanes to Midwest Airlines and AirTran Airways in a ceremony before thousands of employees, retirees and dignitaries in Long Beach, Calif. The deliveries conclude commercial airplane production in Southern California that began in the 1920s with the Douglas Aircraft Co.

03/03/2012

Neon Sign Wiki!!

Neon signs are made using electrified, luminous tube lights that contain rarefied neon or other gases. They are the most common use for neon lighting, which was first demonstrated in a modern form in December, 1910 by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.[1] While they are used worldwide, neon sig...

03/03/2012

Welcome to Douglas Park!

03/03/2012

Proudly made in Long Beach since 1958!

The Douglas DC-8 is a four-engined narrow-body passenger commercial jet airliner, manufactured from 1958 to 1972 by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Launched later than the competing Boeing 707, the DC-8 nevertheless established Douglas in a strong position in the airliner market, and remained in produ...