Experience the Miracle of Being Airborne at Boeing Future of Flight and the Boeing Everett Factory Tour

Maybe you don’t realize it, but we are living in the future. For millennia humans have dreamed of the day when they would take to wing and soar skyward, carefree and lighthearted. Perhaps that’s easy to overlook when you’re sitting in a plane several thousand feet above the earth, yet it’s truly an everyday miracle that we live with in the modern era. Cruising along in the clouds while sipping a cocktail? That’s a pretty remarkable happenstance in the scope of human history.

This wonder of being airborne will be restored to you when you visit Boeing Future of Flight and experience the Boeing Everett Factory Tour where the 777 and 777X are assembled. The Gallery exhibits take you, yes, to the future; but they also transport you into the past as you walk through a full-scale mock-up of the primary research lab for U.S. payloads sent to the International Space Station and look to the legacy of yesteryear’s Rosies bucking rivets for the Allied war effort during World War II.

At the intersection of past and present is, of course, the present moment. Let your imagination take to the skies as you explore the exhibits. There’s no time like now to visit the Boeing Future of Flight Gallery. Pro tip: before you get started, be sure to enjoy a cup of gourmet coffee and a snack at the newly opened Paper Plane Café.

Bonus: Boeing Future of Flight is open seven days a week for the first time since 2020!

Here’s what you can expect.

Boeing Aerospace Adventure Experience

Explore the future of flight through interactive challenges and stories from real Boeing innovators. The Boeing Aerospace Adventure Exhibit invites visitors to design aircraft, tackle sustainability, and glimpse into the world of aerospace careers. You can even sit in a flight simulator and pilot a 787 Dreamliner or an F/A-18 Super Hornet. It’s an inspiring hands-on journey for curious minds ready to dream big and join the next generation of explorers.

Sustainable Aviation Fuel Exhibit

Next, discover how Boeing is leading aviation’s push toward decreasing emissions through innovations in sustainable aviation fuel and more. This exhibit explores the promise of sustainable fuels—cutting carbon by up to 80%—and Boeing’s role in research, testing, and scaling global supply. It’s a window into a cleaner, more resilient future for flight, industry... and the planet!

Wisk: Revolutionizing Urban Transportation

This exhibit takes you into the cutting edge of urban transportation. Imagine taking an Uber across the city, only instead of driving on wheels, your vehicle executes a perfect vertical takeoff before zipping through the air to your destination. Also, there’s no driver. This is the realm of autonomous aerial taxis, the future of cross-city transit. At the FoF, you can get up close to a Wisk Aero craft, which looks like something from a sci-fi movie, but is coming soon to a city near you. This is the only place in the Pacific Northwest where you can experience such a craft in real life.

The Boeing Engineering Zone

This brand-new exhibit offers fun STEM educational opportunities to everybody. Learn about the work of Boeing engineers and how their ingenuity informs (and transforms!) the aerospace industry. “The Lettuce Lab” is geared toward younger kids by positing the question: “What’s it like to grow lettuce in space on a space station?” as a way to think about the future of space farming.

Kids' Zone

The Future of Flight sparks wonder through their STEAM activities. STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics – are the modern skills needed to help children to find quality jobs in the arts and sciences. At Boeing Future of Flight, kids can get hands on when they build simple robots, create art projects, and explore physics at the Bernoulli table. Be sure to ask the front desk for “exploration guides” -- immersive scavenger hunt challenges that will encourage young aerospace enthusiasts to explore the entire facility.

We Can Do It: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

The photo archives of Boeing come to life in an exhibit that takes viewers into the history of women in the airplane industry. During World War II trailblazing women filled Boeing Factories in Seattle and Renton (as well as subassembly plants in Everett). These women donned overalls, aprons, ballcaps and handkerchiefs to hit the assembly lines, keeping airplanes rolling out the door and into Uncle Sam’s arsenal. Their indominable spirit is on display at the Future of Flight: prepared to be inspired.