Local Lodge 834 was granted a charter on March 31, 1942 under the name of Boeing Aeronautical Lodge No. 834. The petition was signed on May 15, 1942 by then International President H. W. Brown and Secretary Treasurer E. C. Davidson.

The Local Lodge was built in late 1956. Some of the finest machinists in the world work for the Wichita Division of the Boeing Company. Local Lodge 834 currently has 600 members.

On June 17, 2005, the Wichita division of Boeing Commercial Aircraft was sold to ONEX, a private equity firm.  On June 25, 2005 a Collective Bargaining Agreement was made and entered into between the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO and its District 70 and Local Lodge 839 and Mid-Western Aircraft Systems, Inc.  (which later adopted a new corporate name). 

 On August 1, 2005, Local Lodge 839 was officially chartered.  Local Lodge 839 now owns the Local Lodge building located at 3917 S. MacArthur, allotting office space for their brothers and sisters of Local Lodge 834.

Local Lodge 839 represents approximately 6,000 hourly employees at the new company, now known as Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.