THE FUTURE IS BUILT HERE Boeing in the UK Boeing has partnered with the United Kingdom for more than 80 years. Over that time, our UK workforce has grown to 2,500 employees – Boeing’s largest European base – across more than 30 key Boeing and customer sites in three main business areas: commercial, defence and global services. We have a long-standing relationship with British industry, the armed forces and the air transport supply chain. Nearly 400 Boeing aeroplanes are operated in the UK, and more than 120 Boeing Chinook, Apache, Poseidon and C-17 aircraft provide battle-winning, life-saving capability to the UK armed forces. The UK is an important market, supplier base and source of some of the world’s most innovative technology partners. OUR COMMITMENT AND PARTNERSHIP 1938 21,000 30 A UK partner people employed key Boeing and for more than 80 years directly and in the customer sites Tier 1 supply chain 500 £21.4M £3.5M+ Boeing aircraft in the spent promoting UK spend focused on UK commercial and innovation, a 250% STEM and veteran defence fleets increase in R&D support projects investment since 2015 since 2011 INVESTMENTS Boeing has invested nearly £200 million in three major infrastructure projects in the UK since 2018, growing the local aerospace sector, creating jobs and driving innovation for mutual benefit. £100M £88M £40M with the Ministry for a new hangar in the company’s of Defence at RAF at Gatwick first European factory Lossiemouth in Sheffield DRIVING UK SUPPLY CHAIN COMPETITIVENESS AND MUTUAL PROSPERITY IN BRITAIN £9.6B 500+ 25% spent by Boeing with its UK companies increase in bid opportunities UK supply chain between attended Boeing for UK companies, the fifth 2015 and 2019 supply chain events year in a row above 20% since 2016 Investments in UK-based aerospace technology; 2018 6 companies include Office opened in strategic long-term Reaction Engines in 2018 Seattle to help UK research partnerships and Isotropic Systems companies export to with universities across in 2019 Boeing in the US England and Scotland Visit: www.boeing.co.uk @BoeingUK BOEING IN THE UK A HISTORY OF PARTNERSHIP Our Presence Boeing is also partnering more closely with the UK through its first manufacturing Boeing’s partnership with the UK began more facility in Europe in Sheffield. UK employees than 80 years ago. Today, Boeing has a UK supply their US counterparts at Boeing workforce of 2,500 direct employees across Portland with components for trailing edge more than 30 key Boeing and customer sites, 1938 actuator systems for 737 and 767 aircraft. British government buys North from Lossiemouth to Gosport. They are The 6,200-square-metre Boeing Sheffield engaged in all aspects of Boeing’s business, American Harvard aeroplanes for facility is located alongside the Advanced reconnaissance and training. from commercial and defense to aviation Manufacturing Research Centre. services and creating the technology of tomorrow. Boeing Global Services The partnership is a growing one. In support of UK prosperity, Boeing announced a Boeing Commercial Aviation Services Europe 1944 number of initiatives in July 2016, including a Ltd (BCASEL) provides commercial aviation More than 1,000 DC-3s and plan to double its employment in the UK and services from its facility in Frimley. Boeing C-47s airlift paratroopers across enhance the value of the aerospace sector has invested £88 million in a new hangar for the English Channel on D-Day. by expanding and developing its domestic commercial aviation maintenance customers supply chain. In 2017, Boeing activities at London Gatwick Airport. Near the site supported a third more jobs in the UK than of the new hangar Boeing Flight Services five years before. Boeing has spent £9.6 runs a flight and technical training centre 1960 billion with UK suppliers since 2015. for flight crew and maintenance personnel. The centre trains pilots and technicians from British Overseas Airways Corporation The company has more than 300 UK airlines across Europe, the Middle East and (BOAC) introduces the 707 on its suppliers and strategic partnerships with six Africa. The current 4,900-square-metre facility London-New York service. universities: Bristol, Cambridge, Cranfield, houses classrooms, fixed training devices, Sheffield, Southampton and Strathclyde. eight full-flight simulators and an exclusive Notably, Boeing co-founded with the 787 training suite. An expansion will make the University of Sheffield and continues to facility the largest Boeing training site outside support the Advanced Manufacturing 1971 the United States. BOAC operates its first 747 flight between Research Centre. Boeing has continued to invest and grow in South Yorkshire with the London Heathrow and New York. opening of Boeing Sheffield in 2018. In 2020, Boeing Defence UK Boeing began a major R&D programme with Boeing delivers leading-edge technology, the Advanced Forming Research Centre in products, services and capabilities to bring Glasgow, part of its new Boeing Scotland the best value to the Ministry of Defence and 1991 Alliance. Boeing’s Office of UK Industrial national security services. RAF Chinooks participate in Collaboration (OUKIC) in Seattle brings UK Boeing platforms in service with British armed Operation Haven, airlifting companies to the US to make them aware of forces include the Apache attack helicopter, humanitarian aid to Kurdish and better positioned to bid for major export Chinook heavy-lift helicopter and C-17 military refugees in Turkey. opportunities. In 2012, Boeing became the transport aircraft. Boeing is delivering nine first company to sign up to the Ministry of Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, and is under Defence’s Defence and Security Industrial contract to deliver Wedgetail AEW Mk 1 Engagement Policy. January 2020 saw airborne early warning and control aircraft. the launch of the Aerospace Technology 2001 Institute (ATI) Boeing Accelerator, with Boeing provides training and sustainment for The C-17 Globemaster III is nine startups receiving investment and aircraft in service with the UK armed forces. formally accepted into RAF service. firsthand access to strategists and technical We are also working closely with the Ministry experts from ATI, Boeing and other leading of Defence to explore the utility and feasibility aerospace companies. The second cohort of autonomous and synthetic capabilities begins in 2021. that can be added to existing and future fleets and tailored to UK requirements. 2013 Boeing Commercial Airplanes In 2007, Boeing established The Portal, a The first 787 Dreamliner for state-of-the-art centre providing customers a UK airlines arrives at Manchester Boeing has a long history of success with a real-time, dynamic environment using the following its delivery flight from Seattle. UK airlines. In early 2019, British Airways, the latest in modelling, simulation, analysis and national carrier, announced a commitment to experimentation. Boeing conducts research purchase as many as 42 777X aeroplanes. and analysis for a number of UK government Ryanair, an Irish airline with a UK stock market agencies, from the Ministry of Defence to 2016 listing and a significant presence in country, the NHS. operates Europe’s largest fleet of 737-800s. Boeing and the UK government announce a long-term initiative, The 787 is making a major contribution to Subsidiaries including nine P-8A aircraft. delivering sustainable aviation growth in the UK and has entered into service with British Boeing has a number of subsidiaries in the Airways and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Several United Kingdom, including Jeppesen UK, major UK aerospace companies play a AerData and Miro Technologies. Recent significant part in the 787, including acquisitions with a presence in the United 2018 Rolls-Royce, whose engines comprise 25 Kingdom include AerData, ETS Aviation and Boeing opens its first factory percent of the aircraft’s value. 2d3 Sensing. in Europe in Sheffield. Commercial Defence Services 2019 The RAF takes delivery of the UK’s first P-8A, to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth Nearly 400 Boeing aircraft operated in the More than 120 Chinook, Commercial aviation United Kingdom Apache, Poseidon and C-17 services for customers aircraft operated by the UK across Europe 2020 armed forces Boeing and the Scottish Enterprise sign the Boeing Scotland Alliance, a strategic agreement for economic growth Copyright © 2020 Boeing. All rights reserved. 317906.