Photo: www.airplanehome.com
Imagine going for a short tracking trip in the woods when suddenly you see a 153 foot (456 meters) (46 meters) passenger plane right in the middle of it. That is exactly what you’ll experience if you’ll visit Hillsboro Oregon’s probably most hidden treasure: a Boeing 727 turned into a home.
Bruce Campbell is an inventive engineer who thought that jetliners should never end up as scrap. He thinks shredding a beautiful and scintillating airplane is a tragedy in waste and a profound failure of human imagination. So to proof this, he decided to buy a retired Boeing 727 aircraft fuselage and upcycled it into an unusual and innovative home.
Aircrafts are after all his passion and it was years ago when he turned his plans of saving retired jetliners into practice. According to Bored Panda's report, the 64-year old says the Boeing is a six months-a-year home and that he has plans to buy another one, the Boeing 747, to locate it somewhere in Japan, where he spends his other have of the year.
The one located near Portland has its wings complete and landing gear resting on pillars and has been in repairs ever since he first put in the woods. Campbell is working to restore some of the plane’s original features, from the cockpit to flight stairs, a working lavatory, LED lighting and some of the seats. You could always check out the video below to get more insight of the exclusive house.
All the information about the plane and all the policies for visitors that want to check it out are on a website created for that. Besides that, he also connected with other fellows having similar homes around the world, including a 727 in Costa Rica, a dual aircraft project in Texas and one in the Netherlands. In fact, the site is more like a guide than a presentation page, of what people need to do if they thinking walking on his foot steps.
Aircrafts are after all his passion and it was years ago when he turned his plans of saving retired jetliners into practice. According to Bored Panda's report, the 64-year old says the Boeing is a six months-a-year home and that he has plans to buy another one, the Boeing 747, to locate it somewhere in Japan, where he spends his other have of the year.
The one located near Portland has its wings complete and landing gear resting on pillars and has been in repairs ever since he first put in the woods. Campbell is working to restore some of the plane’s original features, from the cockpit to flight stairs, a working lavatory, LED lighting and some of the seats. You could always check out the video below to get more insight of the exclusive house.
All the information about the plane and all the policies for visitors that want to check it out are on a website created for that. Besides that, he also connected with other fellows having similar homes around the world, including a 727 in Costa Rica, a dual aircraft project in Texas and one in the Netherlands. In fact, the site is more like a guide than a presentation page, of what people need to do if they thinking walking on his foot steps.
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