Plane Obsessed: More Jet Hotels and Houses

"QUANTUM SHOT" #616 Link - by Avi Abrams 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: (images credit: Mr. Vincent Costello, via) 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") - (images credit: Mr. Vincent Costello, via) Another Boeing 727 fuselage turned into a cost-effective and energy-efficient house: Jo Ann Ussery's estate at Benoit, Lake Whittington, Mississippi, USA - (image via) An old Bristol freighter plane converted to "bed and breakfast" - in Otorohanga, New Zealand: (images via) Red Lane's DC-8 home (originally built for Eastern Airlines in 1960) - now resides in Ashland City, Tenn. (photo By Bob Shane, via) Using wings and other parts of an airplane as very structurally-sound and efficient components of a house (more info) - (images via) 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: (photos by James Broome via, and Jerilee Bennett via 1, 2) 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: (images via) 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 (images credit: 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. (images via 1, 2) More bits, wings, and pieces An old Soviet plane, transformed into a bar in Olomouc, Czech Republic - Latka Bar: (image via) Another plane cafe in Russia: this is actually a roadside eatery, serving drivers on the “Don” highway - (images via) An old C-97 plane converted into a disco (in Barcelona, Spain): (image via) McDonald's in Taupo, New Zealand, uses an old DC3 to attract visitors: (image via) Flannery's Restaurant in Penndel, Pennsylvania, features a Lockheed Super Constellation: (photo by J. Roger Bentley, via) Air Restaurant Tupolev TU-104 in Petrovice, Czech Republic: (image credit: Philip Heymann, drs-spotter.de) Lufthansa Vickers Viscount 814 Restaurant in Langenhagen, Germany: (image credit: Tim Corduan) 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): (transporting DC-6 in Fairbanks, Alaska - photos by Stephen Cysewski, more here) CONTINUE TO "ABANDONED BOEING 747 RESTAURANT" -> ALSO READ: "MYSTERY JET HOUSE" -> Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook