Brooklyn Boat in a Plane

We keep running into boats in Brooklyn in the oddest places. A couple of weeks ago, we had the boat on a scaffold at the Aqua Condo in Greenpoint. Now, we have this, inside an old plane fuselage. The location is inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and we're sure there's an interesting back story as to how this came to be, but we haven't got the slightest notion what it is. The side view of "Meow Man Airlines" is below.