The 2707-300 wasbuild in mockup form, and that's mockup has had an incredible history over the last four decades. It makes a fascinating story.
As of 1971 the mockup was stored at the Boeing plant, Seattle. Boeing had some room for it, but in 1973 it had to go. It was a Nebraska millionaire, Marks Morrison, that bought it for a miserable 31 000 dollars.
Morrison then send the mockup 6000 km away, down to Kissimmee, florida, by rail.
The SST exhibit aviation center had a hangar specially build around the 288 ft long mockup, and there it stayed until 1982, when the exhibit closed.
The rest of the story is even better, although a bit sad in the end.
The big hangar build around the mockup ended as... a church. They celebrated mass down the mockup, for eight years. Then in summer 1990 pastor Deloach decided he had enough. The mockup had to go. It would have been scrapped had it not been for the Orlando Sentinel, and Charles Bell.
Charles Bell himself was an epic person. Over thirty year that man bought everything NASA threw away at the Cape - read, piece of launch pads, spacecrafts mockups, a couple of rockets and missiles, rocket engines, obsolete launch and tracking hardware, things like that. He piled up all this into his junkyard not too far from the Cape, and he evidently jumped on the SST mockup.
To get it out of the church the mockupwas cut into big chunks that Bell stored at his scrapyard for a decade, where unfortunately it rusted under the Florida harsh sun.
Bell dream was evidently of a museum, but he died in February 2000 and within a month his incredible collection was auctionned all over the world.
What remained of the once proud SST mockup was taken over by the Hiller aviation museum, located in... California.
So the cockpit and forward fuselage crossed the USA once again, with the rest of the mockup scrapped.
The Hiller museum is gradually restoring that historical piece of hardware.
but what an epic story it makes...
