727 Jet And Dream House In Oregon (Video)---727 Jet And Dream House In Oregon, Airplane Home, Aircraft Home, Boeing 727 Home, Boeing Home: I just read my Urban Daddy Jet set newsletter introducing the newest suite at the Hotel Costa Verde in Costa Rica; a fully outfitted, detailed, 2-bedro om, Boeing 727 fuselage. Lost Fans:
Your motherships’ arrived!! The refurbished vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia). Now it resides at the most exclusive hotel suite in Costa Rica.
The salvaged airframe was transported from its’ resting home in the San Jose airport by 5 big-rig trucks and hauled through the Manuel Antonio jungles where it was resurrected into this hotel ‘jumbo-suite’ 50 feet up in a tree in the National Park of the Costa Verde II.
The plane’s interior is Costa Rican teak paneling from the cockpit to the tail; furnishings are from Java, Indonesia. A spiral-rock-staircase leads up giving 360-degree views of the surrounding gardens. “Sloths”, toucans and monkeys share the tree with this jumbo-suite.
The hotel claims the idea was inspired by a Forbes Magazine article about a company offering hurricane-proof living via surplus Boeing 727 airframes – so this is not the only such dwelling in the world. Click here to see others.
Ever wonder what happens to retired airliners once their flying days are over? Most of them are parted out with the remaining fuselage chopped up and sold as scrap aluminum. A few escape the scrapper’s blade to be displayed in museums.
Still fewer are given a reprieve by members of an exclusive club of individuals who have turned their aeronautical flights of fancy into reality, without ever leaving the ground, by transforming salvaged airplanes into personal residences.
The preferred model used for these unconventional dwellings has been the Boeing 727, but others such as the Boeing 307 and Douglas DC-8 are also used.
Most are off the beaten path, giving new meaning to the term “country home.” As airlines continue to downsize their fleets, the number of airframes available for such projects has significantly increased.
With a growing number of aircraft going into storage, market factors should translate into lower acquisition costs and greater opportunity to acquire a more complete airliner as the demand for parts is diminished.
This is particularly true for the Boeing 727, an aircraft type being purged from airliner fleets to make way for more modern aircraft.
Read more: http://www.thedailytruffle.com/2009/04/live-in-jet-in-a-tree-in-costa-rica/
Your motherships’ arrived!! The refurbished vintage 1965 Boeing 727 airframe in its prior life shuttled globetrotters on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines (Colombia). Now it resides at the most exclusive hotel suite in Costa Rica.
The salvaged airframe was transported from its’ resting home in the San Jose airport by 5 big-rig trucks and hauled through the Manuel Antonio jungles where it was resurrected into this hotel ‘jumbo-suite’ 50 feet up in a tree in the National Park of the Costa Verde II.
The plane’s interior is Costa Rican teak paneling from the cockpit to the tail; furnishings are from Java, Indonesia. A spiral-rock-staircase leads up giving 360-degree views of the surrounding gardens. “Sloths”, toucans and monkeys share the tree with this jumbo-suite.
The hotel claims the idea was inspired by a Forbes Magazine article about a company offering hurricane-proof living via surplus Boeing 727 airframes – so this is not the only such dwelling in the world. Click here to see others.
Ever wonder what happens to retired airliners once their flying days are over? Most of them are parted out with the remaining fuselage chopped up and sold as scrap aluminum. A few escape the scrapper’s blade to be displayed in museums.
Still fewer are given a reprieve by members of an exclusive club of individuals who have turned their aeronautical flights of fancy into reality, without ever leaving the ground, by transforming salvaged airplanes into personal residences.
The preferred model used for these unconventional dwellings has been the Boeing 727, but others such as the Boeing 307 and Douglas DC-8 are also used.
Most are off the beaten path, giving new meaning to the term “country home.” As airlines continue to downsize their fleets, the number of airframes available for such projects has significantly increased.
With a growing number of aircraft going into storage, market factors should translate into lower acquisition costs and greater opportunity to acquire a more complete airliner as the demand for parts is diminished.
This is particularly true for the Boeing 727, an aircraft type being purged from airliner fleets to make way for more modern aircraft.
Read more: http://www.thedailytruffle.com/2009/04/live-in-jet-in-a-tree-in-costa-rica/
