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Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10k

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by v5v3

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by radar1310

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This guy should consider this concept Flight Sim Cafe https://www.facebook.com/1Aeroflightsimcafe/

by dctoedt

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> Its previous owner, a charter company called Blue Falcon Corp, ....
I smiled at that one. It was like when, probably 1980 or so, the Austin American-Statesman newspaper ran a photo of a "robot" parading in front of the White House. The caption explained that the robot's name was FUBAR: Futuristic Uranium-powered Bio-Atomic Robot. Evidently the Statesman's photo editor had never served in the military — or had served, and intentionally ran the photo and caption ....
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue_falcon

by burnt-resistor

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Planes include crap tons of specialized toxic materials. Converting it to any use other than flying is a major, expensive hassle. Such an old plane might as well be free or paid $$ to be taken away.

by matt_s

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Sounds like their plans are to make it like an exhibit and/or field trip for kids to learn about aviation.
It would be neat if they refurbished the cockpit to make it operational and changed the windscreens to computer monitors, basically make it a low-feature simulator that people could experience.

by VWWHFSfQ

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> he hopes the plane can serve as an educational tool and visual attraction to bring more excitement to his hometown. And he already has a name in mind: “Hangar Hangout.”
> back-of-the-envelope math and estimated they could probably complete the entire project for around $250,000—maybe less if they did most of the work themselves
This sounds pretty cool and I wish them luck, but I suspect their estimate is pretty far off.
Everything about old jets like this is highly specialized and "refurbishing" anything with real parts, or even just matching "period" parts, is likely to be an absolute money sink.
But good luck! Sounds fun

by sg47

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