{"id":26215,"date":"2024-04-10T00:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-737-first-flight-history\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T00:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T14:30:12","slug":"history-the-story-of-the-boeing-737s-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=26215","title":{"rendered":"History: The Story Of The Boeing 737&#8217;s First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-737\/\">Boeing 737<\/a> took to the skies for the first time 57 years ago today, on April 9th, 1967. The aircraft, registered as N-73700, was flown by Boeing&#39;s Assistant Director of Flight Operations, Brien Wygle, and the manufacturer&#39;s Chief Test Pilot, Lew Wallick. The test flight took off from King County International Airport (BFI), which is also known as Boeing Field.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 737-100 took to the skies for the first time 57 years ago today, on April 9th, 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,422,3790,408,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-first-flight","category-history","category-southwest-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26216,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}