"The 787 is the most successful new launch of a plane - ever," said Howard A. Rubel, an aerospace analyst at Jeffries & Company, an investment bank that has advised a Boeing subsidiary.

The Boeing Company and a former senior sales executive are under criminal investigation in Canada on suspicion that a former Boeing subsidiary paid more than $1 million in bribes and fees to sell five airplanes to Bahamasair in 1990, people with knowledge of the investigation said.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against a Boeing subsidiary, alleging that the company provided flight plans for Central Intelligence Agency aircraft transporting terrorism suspects to overseas prisons where they say they were tortured.

The defendant in the case was a Boeing subsidiary accused of arranging extraordinary rendition flights for the CIA.

The work force at other Boeing sites will increase by 800, the company said, much of it related to work on the space station, the recent acquisition of Litton Precision Gear by a Boeing subsidiary, and a contract to supply communications technology to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The Boeing Company operates a Flight Test Facility at this airport, which is maintained and operated by the Montana Aviation Research Company (MARCO), a Boeing subsidiary.

And as a Boeing subsidiary bound by American laws on business deals, Aero shies away from offsets that may appear unrelated to building airplanes.

This was followed in 1990 by the acquisition of the bankrupt Learjet Company of Wichita, Kansas, builder of the Learjet business aircraft, and finally the Boeing subsidiary, money-losing, de Havilland Aircraft of Canada based in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

The antenna can be steered electronically, and over the Atlantic it can refocus from one satellite over North America to another over Europe without interrupting a download, according to Connexion by Boeing, the Boeing subsidiary that built the system.

In August 2005, Frontier Systems - by then a Boeing subsidiary - received a $50 million contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division "to assess the military utility and affordability of a long-range VTOL UAV employing a wide variety of adaptable payloads".