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
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 -
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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,
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:
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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):