Boeing a sponsor of the Seahawks, and the aircraft is a freighter owned by Boein...

001sky · on Jan 31, 2014

I'm sure the (many, recent) tax breaks pay for it...

The tax breaks the Legislature just passed for Boeing are apparently the largest state-tax subsidy deal for a private company in American history.

Local pride, as thet say.

squidfood · on Jan 31, 2014

Well, it's a hat tip to their brethren who put all the public funds into the seahawks stadium...

bagels · on Jan 31, 2014

Bribe, kickback, gift, hat tip, patronage. All a matter of perspective I suppose.

donavanm · on Jan 31, 2014

> The livery doesn't appear to be just for the Superbowl

It's new. There's some youtube footage of the same aircraft doing test flights a few months back. Plain white, and weathered, fuselage and tail.

chaz · on Jan 31, 2014

I meant that the livery is evergreen, and isn't "Good luck at Super Bowl XLVIII!" They can fly it for years and it won't be dated.

> Plain white, and weathered

Maybe it needed a paint job anyway.

vonmoltke · on Jan 31, 2014

This was the first ever flight of this aircraft, so that is not the same airplane in those videos.

gertef · on Jan 31, 2014

OK but the photograph was taken from another plane, which had no other reason to be in the air.