Acquire a plane of airline with capacity for 129 passengers, for just 8,700 eurosIt looks like a bargain. But that is just the Iceberg tip. How do you transport it to your home? How do you rest it? And, worse, What do you do if you find a «bomb» inside?
This is the story of Ismael Lara and his brother, inhabitants of the city of El Paso, in Texas, who decided Buy a Boeing 727 59 years ago at a City Hall auction. With a starting price of only $ 1,000, they earned it for an amount of 10,132 dollars, about 8,700 euros.
The Lara brothers wanted to reform it to make it an educational tourist attraction so that children can learn the history and concepts of aviation. But one thing is to imagine it, and another to do it …
An unpleasant surprise within a abandoned Boeing 727
Ismael Lara / Popular Science
Due to the auction data, this Boeing 727 had transported prisoners of the US Marshall, and also passengers with the Airline Charter Blue Falcon Corp, according to Popular Science. But his CEO died, ironically, in an plane accident, and since then they had stopped paying the parking lot.
After 20 years abandoned, the City Council seized it, and decided to auction it last January. The Lara brothers won the auction, so they faced the first problem: How to transport a plane almost 50 meters long and 39 meters of size?
They had to hire two cranes, a dozen workers and two heavy trucks. For weeks, workers They disassembled the plane in several partsa very heavy and complicated task, because most of the screws were rusty.
And then, the unexpected happened. When disassembling the fuel tanks … they discovered that they were full. They immediately called the airport, and the answer was most disturbing: «Boys, you have a bomb there.»
The fuel was in the tanks 20 years, and at that time it degrades, to the point that It can explode. They had to hire an expert team in manipulating dangerous toxic substances, which charged 2 euros for each liter of fuel extracted. The invoice amounted to $ 25,000, just to get the fuel.
Adding the transport, assembly and restoration, the Lara brothers calculated that Condition the plane would cost $ 250,000, about 215,000 euros.
Ismael Lara / Popular Science
His idea is to add screens inside and turn it into an aviation museum. They plan to install a food truck abroad, and invite local artists to decorate the Boeing 727 fuselage.
If the tourism project does not work out, they will sell it as an exotic house on Airbnb. There are already some houses-avion that have had great success.
As we have seen, buying a Boeing 727 for 8,000 euros looks like a bargain. The complicated, and expensive, is what comes next …
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