Plane Obsessed: More Jet Hotels and Houses
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A good way to retire – together with your private jet Our coverage of recycling airplanes into houses, restaurants, hotels, etc. has proved quite popular (see our Mystery Plane in Your Backyard). Here is a small collection of further findings of cool converted jets around the world. We’ll start with a cool Boeing 727 House, located in Costa Rica. Suzanne Pope sends us some images:
You can check into this house, too – this is part of the spectacular Costa Verde Resort
Nice interior design, cozy and warm:
The view is outstanding (almost as good as being „up in the air”) -
Another Boeing 727 fuselage turned into a cost-effective and energy-efficient house: Jo Ann Ussery’s estate at Benoit, Lake Whittington, Mississippi, USA -
An old Bristol freighter plane converted to „bed and breakfast” – in Otorohanga, New Zealand:
Red Lane’s DC-8 home (originally built for Eastern Airlines in 1960) – now resides in Ashland City, Tenn. Using wings and other parts of an airplane as very structurally-sound and efficient components of a house (more info) -
Need a guest room? Add an airplane to your house! Aviation artist Richard Broome adds a full cockpit of Boeing 727-222A to his studio, more info:
Vliegtuigsuite, Teuge Airport Hotel, Netherlands This one-of-a-kind luxury hotel suite has sauna, jaccuzzi… and a Cold War-era cockpit – inside a beautifully converted 120-seat 1960 East German plane (the former plane of Erich Honecker?). This is a real thing, courtesy Dutch company HotelSuites, not some viral concept like the infamous Hotelicopter… You can get your morning cup of coffee sitting in a pilot chair, gazing on a runway and planes taking off for blue skies:
Runway Dreams in Stockholm Another Jumbo turned into a hostel, this time it’s a retrofitted 747-200 at the Stockholm-Arlanda airport: rated „Best Hotel Novelty of the Year” – JumboHostel
Recycled Airplane Library BLDGBLOG writes about this impressive concept of stacking a bunch of discarded jet fuselages to create a huge library building – complete with cozy reading rooms book collections inside the fuselages. More bits, wings, and pieces An old Soviet plane, transformed into a bar in Olomouc, Czech Republic – Latka Bar:
Another plane cafe in Russia: this is actually a roadside eatery, serving drivers on the “Don” highway -
An old C-97 plane converted into a disco (in Barcelona, Spain):
McDonald’s in Taupo, New Zealand, uses an old DC3 to attract visitors:
Flannery’s Restaurant in Penndel, Pennsylvania, features a Lockheed Super Constellation:
Air Restaurant Tupolev TU-104 in Petrovice, Czech Republic:
Lufthansa Vickers Viscount 814 Restaurant in Langenhagen, Germany:
Need to transport an old airplane to your lot for recycling? Apparently you can do it with a simple pickup truck (just make sure you put the „Oversize Load” warnings):
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