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Boeing South Carolina is carving out a much-larger-than-lifesize airplane feature at a stormwater retention pond it is building along Michaux Parkway at the planemaker’s North Charleston campus next to the airport.

The 1.5-acre land feature — no word on whether it’s modeled after the 787 Dreamliners made nearby — extends into a 20-acre pond along Michaux Parkway. The pond itself is about the size of 15 football fields and can hold about the same amount of water as 100 Olympic-size swimming pools.

The airplane feature, while a perfect landmark for Boeing, also serves the purpose of baffling incoming stormwater, something required by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is a feature that is unique to Boeing South Carolina,” said Boeing spokesman Robert Gross, adding “we don’t have any plans for similar features elsewhere on Boeing property at this time.”

Boeing spokeswoman Candy Eslinger said it wasn’t in the original plan. During the design phase, the team noticed the “baffle feature” was naturally taking on the shape of an airplane — unintentionally,” Eslinger said. “So they just went with it, and built it out to really look like one.”
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