A mockup of the sexiest airplane that Boeing never built returns to the Puget Sound area after a 40-year absence Saturday.
Look for the mockup of Boeing’s stillborn Supersonic transport or SST, carried aboard a big, over-the-road trailer, to pass through Tacoma on Interstate 5 either late Friday or early Saturday. The plane is bound from a San Francisco-area aviation museum to Everett’s Paine Field where it will be stored.
The mockup’s newer owner is Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The museum is transporting it to its Everett restoration center while it decides whether it needs further restoration and where to …