I am just going to put this out there.

The world heaquarters of Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes is still in Renton.

Yah, yah, it makes a difference where a CEO plants the company flag. James Albaugh is moving to a Seattle ‘scraper with some of his other executive and business staff.

But the men and women who build Boeing’s most-popular jetliner ever, the 737, are in Renton. Generations before them built the 757, the 727 and the grandfather of them all, the 707.

It’s OK that Albaugh and his sales team wine and dine prospective clients at Seattle’s fine restaurants, although, frankly it seems he’s been doing pretty well with sales without moving to Seattle.

Does this feel the same as when Boeing’s corporate executives decamped to Chicago? Maybe a little bit. Albaugh will still have an office at Longacres and in Everett, too.

I kinda buy Boeing’s explanation that the division is headquartered in Puget Sound, given its widespread production facilities. That seems a bit nebulous, if not watery.

Am I making too big a deal about this? Maybe so. But in the Renton Reporter, we’ll still write Renton-based Commercial Airplanes.