Renton Municipal Airport, West Perimeter Road, Renton, King County, Washington, 98057, United States
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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Boeing's own 50th-anniversary release says "Friday, Dec. 20, 1957"; This Day in Aviation and Wikipedia[3] give the same date for the first flight of the first production 707-120.The first production Boeing 707-120 took off from Renton Municipal Airport on 20 December 1957, flew for seven minutes before weather forced a landing at Boeing Field, and flew again for 71 minutes later that day.
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