Boeing B-1

The Boeing B-1, company Model 6, was a small biplane flying boat designed by William Boeing shortly after World War I. It was Boeing's first commercial design, as opposed to military or experimental designs, hence the B-1 designation. Its layout was conventional for the day, with a Hall-Scott engine driving a pusher propeller mounted among the cabane struts, the pilot in an open cockpit at the bow and up to two passengers in a second open cockpit behind, and it recalled the Curtiss HS-2L that Boeing had built under licence during the war. Only one was built, because Boeing struggled to sell it in a market flooded with war-surplus aircraft. In 1920 Edward Hubbard bought it and used it to carry air mail between Seattle and Victoria, British Columbia; it flew until 1930 and has been displayed in Seattle since 1954.