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Joe Sutter

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Transport Atlas. "Joe Sutter." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-transport.interactiveatlas.org/figures/joe-sutter.

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Transport Atlas. (n.d.). Joe Sutter. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-transport.interactiveatlas.org/figures/joe-sutter

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@misc{transportatlas-joe-sutter,
  author = {Transport Atlas},
  title = {Joe Sutter},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-transport.interactiveatlas.org/figures/joe-sutter},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Joe Sutter was an American engineer at Boeing who managed the design team for the Boeing 747. Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has described him as the father of the 747.

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Birth Year

1921 1

Death Year

2016 1

Nationality

American 1

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Boeing 747

Source Wikipedia: Joe Sutter

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1. Wikipedia: Joe Sutter

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Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine has described Sutter as the "father of the 747".

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