Iron Maiden's so-called Ed Force One has landed in the Puget Sound.
The rock stars' Boeing 747 landed at Sea-Tac Airport a few hours ahead of their concert at the Tacoma Dome on Monday night.
It flew in from Vancouver. [Click to see photos.]
Vocalist Bruce Dickinson captains the jumbo jet that will travel to seven continents for "The Book of Souls World Tour," according to the band's website.
"When the opportunity arose from my friends at Air Atlanta Icelandic to lease a 747 for The Book of Souls World Tour, of course we jumped at the chance, who wouldn't?" Dickinson <a href="http://ironmaiden.com/news/article/iron-maiden-and-the-book-of-souls-go-jumbo-on-massive-2016-world-tour">said in part on the website</a>.
"The greatest benefit of traveling in a 747 is that because of its colossal size and freight capacity we can carry our stage production and all our stage equipment and desks in the cargo hold without having to make any of the immense structural modifications needed to do this on the previous 757."
Dickinson wrote that he had to train before the tour in order to qualify as a pilot and captain on the plane.
The band posted this infographic explaining the technicalities on Ed Force One.