SEATTLE — Boeing will hand over the third 787 Dreamliner built to the Museum of Flight at 11 a.m. Saturday in Seattle.
The airplane will be open to museum-goers from noon until 5 p.m. and all day Sunday.
To celebrate the arrival, admission is free for all Boeing employees, retirees, and suppliers, plus up to six guests each this weekend.
The museum accepted Boeing’s donation because the Dreamliner is expected to be an important piece of commercial air travel’s evolution, a museum spokesman said in an earlier interview with The Daily Herald.
The airplane was one of the 787’s test aircraft and it was used in Boeing’s 2012 Dream Tour, a six-month trip around the globe.
Boeing has struggled to sell many of the early production Dreamliners.
The airplane will be closed to the public for much of November while it is prepared for permanent exhibition.
When it reopens Nov. 22, its interior will be partially configured as a an airliner and as a test plane, with some space also for displays covering the 787’s development, according to the museum.
Dan Catchpole: 425-339-3454; dcatchpole@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @dcatchpole.
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