In 2015, Nagoya’s Chubu Centrair International Airport received the first 787 Dreamliner test plane as a gift from Boeing. The airport built the newly opened, multistory \u00ab\u00a0Flight of Dreams\u00a0\u00bb aviation attraction and commercial complex around it.<\/b>
\nAt first, it seems odd that Boeing’s first 787 Dreamliner test plane is the main attraction inside an exhibition center that opened this month at the airport in Nagoya, Japan. It may seem even odder that all the retail and dining venues in the hall have a theme\u2026 from Seattle.
But it makes sense when you consider that Nagoya-area aerospace manufacturers build 35 percent of the parts for each 787 aircraft \u2014 including wings and fuselage sections that are ferried from the Nagoya airport to Boeing assembly plants in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, and North Charleston, South Carolina. The oversized 747 cargo planes carrying them are dubbed \u00ab\u00a0Dreamlifters.\u00a0\u00bb
In 2015, Nagoya’s Chubu Centrair International Airport received the first 787 Dreamliner test plane (known as the ZA001) as a gift from Boeing. The airport built the newly opened, multistory \u00ab\u00a0Flight of Dreams\u00a0\u00bb aviation attraction and commercial complex around it.
\u00ab\u00a0Japan is one of the most important and special overseas visitor markets for Seattle, and this permanent exhibition provides a unique opportunity to highlight our destination to millions of potential Japanese visitors,\u00a0\u00bb said Tom Norwalk, president & CEO of Visit Seattle. \u00ab\u00a0An opportunity of this magnitude rarely becomes available, let alone in a key visitor market.\u00a0\u00bb
Visitors pay admission (about $11 for adults; $7 for kids) to gain to admission to the \u00ab\u00a0Flight Park\u00a0\u00bb on the first floor, where the ZA001 is the center of a variety of interactive and hands-on aviation-related activities.
The second- and third-floor \u00ab\u00a0Seattle Terrace\u00a0\u00bb looks out over the historic airplane. It’s lined with well-known Seattle businesses and retailers, including Starbucks, Fran’s Chocolates, Beechers Handmade Cheese and Pike Brewing.
CNBC recently got a look at what visitors will find at Nagoya’s airport’s Flight of Dreams.<\/p>\n