Is the Boeing Factory Tour Open? Hours & Days in 2026
Yes — the Boeing Everett factory tour reopened in October 2023 and now runs seven days a week. Current hours, closure dates, and why so many pages still say closed.
Yes. The Boeing Everett factory tour is running, and as of 2026 it runs seven days a week. The reason this question gets asked so often is that the tour spent three and a half years either closed or replaced by a film, and a great many pages written during that period are still online and still say otherwise.
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Current Hours and Days
The Future of Flight Aviation Center at 8415 Paine Field Blvd, Mukilteo, is open daily, 8:30am to 5:30pm. Factory tours run roughly hourly through the day, and Boeing asks visitors to arrive 30 minutes before their tour time.
Boeing expanded operations from five days a week to seven, with the wider schedule phased in from July, alongside new exhibits in the gallery.
Closure dates: Thanksgiving (November 26), December 24, December 25, December 31, and January 1.
Arriving late matters more here than at most attractions: miss your slot and the reservation is forfeited, because the tour moves as a timed group into a working factory.
Why So Many Pages Say It’s Closed
The timeline explains the confusion:
- March 2020 — Boeing suspended the factory tour as the pandemic closed the site.
- The gap years — the center reopened before the tour did. For a period, visitors who booked a “factory tour” were shown a 45-minute documentary instead of going inside the building. A lot of disappointed reviews date from this window.
- October 2023 — the full factory tour resumed.
- 2026 — expanded from five days a week to seven, with refreshed gallery exhibits.
Anything written between 2020 and late 2023 is describing a different situation. If a page tells you the tour is closed or that you will watch a video instead, check its date before you believe it.
Booking: Do You Need To, and How Far Ahead?
Advance booking is recommended and walk-ups are accepted, but “accepted” is not “available” on a July weekend. Tours are timed and capacity-limited, so the practical advice is to book ahead in summer and school holidays and treat walk-up as a shoulder-season option.
Boeing lets you reschedule online up to 2 hours before your visit time; for a same-day emergency they ask for at least an hour’s notice by phone.
Guided tours from Seattle carry a different and generally friendlier policy — the From Seattle: Boeing Factory and Future of Flight Tour offers free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure with instant confirmation, which is why booking early costs you nothing. Our full breakdown of that tour covers the departure point and timings.
Is the Gallery Open When the Tour Isn’t?
On the published closure dates, neither runs. Otherwise the gallery keeps the same 8:30am–5:30pm hours as the site. If a factory tour slot is sold out for your date, gallery admission at $14 is still available and still gets you the Strato Deck over the Paine Field flight line — which is a genuinely good consolation, though it is not the factory.
What’s Actually Running Inside
Worth setting expectations, because “open” does not mean “everything you have read about”. The Everett lines currently building aircraft are the 767, the 777 and the 777X, with 787 Dreamliner finishing work also on site.
The 747 line is closed — the final aircraft rolled out in 2022 and was delivered in early 2023. Tour listings still advertising a 747 have simply not updated their copy.
Boeing does not stage the floor for visitors either, so how much activity you see depends on where each aircraft sits in its build cycle that day. Nobody can promise you a busy factory.
Planning the Rest of the Day
If the tour is open and you are going, two practical guides follow from here: what the day actually looks like and what you cannot bring is in what to expect on the Boeing factory tour, and if you do not have a car, start with getting to the Future of Flight from Seattle before you book anything.
See a Jet Being Built — 25 Miles North of Seattle
Round-trip coach from downtown, factory admission, and a guide for the ride. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before you go.
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