By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 08:50 EST, 1 July 2012 | UPDATED: 09:39 EST, 1 July 2012

NASAs Super Guppy cargo plane has been cheered by hundreds of people in Seattle as it delivered part of the Space Shuttle Trainer.

More than a thousand people gathered at the Museum of Flight as the aircraft circled before landing for welcome ceremony.

Inside the turboprop plane was the crew compartment of NASAs Full Fuselage Shuttle Trainer - a full-scale mockup of the Space Shuttle Orbiter - which is now owned by the museum.

Inside the turboprop plane was the crew compartment of NASA's Full Fuselage Shuttle Trainer, which is now owned by the museum

It is just one piece of a future exhibit which museum officials call 'world class'.

It will feature the 121-foot shuttle trainer, which had never before left Houstons Johnson Space Center.

It will be completely reassembled in the Museum of Flights $12 million Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.

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