Boeing acquires flight-planning app maker ForeFlight

The deal, announced Wednesday, caps a two-year partnership between the companies in which Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen provided aeronautical data and charts through ForeFlight’s mobile app, enabling ForeFlight’s expansion in commercial aviation. On HoustonChronicle.com: Houston-based app aids private pilots, rescuers, other fliers

ForeFlight, incorporated in 2007, was among the first 500 apps to debut in Apple’s app store when it launched in July 2008. Tom Haines, spokesman for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, called ForeFlight “a really important company for general aviation in the last decade.”

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