WASHINGTON — Boeing Co. announced a $13.3 billion deal yesterday to buy McDonnell Douglas Corp., a purchase that will create the world’s largest aerospace company and cast a shadow over ...

The last remaining members of the Douglas family have been laid off from their jobs at the Douglas aircraft unit of McDonnell Douglas Corp., along with 7,000 other employees, officials said Friday ...

Douglas has scorned McDonnell, but now Douglas' bankers gave him no choice. On April 27, 1967, the two companies consumated the deal, with Old Mac in the chairman's seat, and the company's ...

McDonnell Douglas was birthed in 1967 from a merger between the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation and the Douglas Aircraft Company, two companies that had been active since 1939 and 1921, respectively.

The MD-11, successor to the popular McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jet, had its first flight in January 1990, and this tri-jet promised a better future for the company, with the goal of leaving the DC-10 ...