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5:42 am
Fri March 15, 2013

New Boeing Wing Opens At Kansas Aviation Museum

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The Kansas Aviation Museum in southeast Wichita.

The Kansas Aviation Museum opens the new Boeing Science, Math and History Learning Center in southeast Wichita Saturday.

The hands-on education experience is designed for students to work individually or in groups. The learning center has been five years in the making and features four learning stations with computers that will run interactive programs on things like flight and weather conditions.

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Business
11:43 am
Wed January 9, 2013

Boeing Begins To Prepare Wichita Facility For Sale

Boeing officials say they will begin actively marketing the company's Wichita defense facilities by the end of January.

Company spokeswoman Kathleen Spicer says Boeing is working with the national real estate firm CBRE Group of Los Angeles to arrange the sale of the property.

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Aviation
1:12 pm
Mon August 27, 2012

Court: Age Discrimination Unproven In Boeing Sale

A federal appeals court panel has sided with The Boeing Company and Spirit AeroSystems in an age discrimination lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed by 90 former Boeing workers after the 2005 sale of its commercial airplane operations in Kansas and Oklahoma.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that while employees showed discrimination occurred during the sale, the workers cannot prove a pattern existed.

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Business
9:58 am
Fri June 1, 2012

KS Orgs Receive Grant To Document Boeing’s Legacy In Wichita

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Boeing B-29 Bomber

The Kansas Humanities Council has received an award from the Library of Congress to document Boeing’s legacy in Wichita through an oral history project.

The Kansas Humanities Council was one of five recipients of the Archie Green Fellowship through the American Folk Life Center.

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