context: Boeing is an American multinational aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, and its plants are near Seattle. The company was founded on 15 July 1916 by William Boeing. Boeing is nowadays one of the largest giants in the world, especially after its merger with aircraft manufacturer MacDonald Douglas in 1997. Boeing has produced a number of aircraft, including civil ones such as Boeing 747, including the military, such as the B-52, and does not dare compete in the civil and military aviation market except Airbus company owned by the European group. Boeing has unlimited support from the US government, and the company’s headquarters and huge production hall were the place that US President George W. Bush chose to deliver his famous speech on aviation in 2003 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first airline implemented by the Wright Brothers in which he pledged to remain the states United is the country that will lead the world in aviation over the next hundred years, as it was in the twentieth century.
question: When was the American aircraft company Boeing founded?
answers.text: 15 July 1916