Boeing Plant 2

Boeing Plant 2 was a factory building which was built in 1936 by the Boeing Corporation in King County, Washington in the United States. By the time production ceased in the building, the plant had built half of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, the Boeing 307s, the Boeing 377s, some of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, Boeing B-50 Superfortresses, B-47 Stratojets, B-52 Stratofortresses, and the initial Boeing 737s. It was located between the Duwamish River and Boeing Field.
In the 1930s, it became apparent that Boeing Plant 1, located right down the river, was obsolete for aircraft production as it focused on stitching, gluing, and nailing biplanes together. Plant 2 was built as a modern assembly line where metal would be stamped and placed onto the planes in the same facility. In 1936, the plant was finished with a goal to build early prototypes of the B-17 Flying Fortress and the Boeing 307s. At this time the floor was 60,000 square feet . 600,000 square feet was added to the plant in May 1940 to support Boeing production of 380 Douglas DB-7 light bombers. By the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the plant had been expanded to 1,776,000 square feet . In total, 6,981 B-17s were produced in Plant 2.

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