Pablo Escobar’s private jet turned into ‘world’s coolest’ Airbnb

Pablo Escobar's private jet turned into 'world's coolest' AirbnbSWNS

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00:00Hey, I'm Jonny Palmer, and I own this Boeing 727 in Brislington, Bristol.

00:06So I first heard about a place called Kemble Airfield, where they scraphold aircraft, and

00:10I went there because I love aeroplanes, and I saw this one, and I met a guy called Mark

00:13who showed me around, and eventually I managed to buy it off him.

00:16And a year later, I landed it down in Brislington, in Bristol.

00:21So despite it being an aeroplane, you'd think it would be able to move quite easily, wasn't

00:24the case.

00:25When I first bought it, it got stuck in the mud, and then we had to get onto a lorry and

00:28move it down the M5.

00:29It got stuck under a motorway bridge, then stuck on a roundabout, had to go through multiple

00:33different police constabularies to get it here.

00:36It was quite a hard journey, but eventually it got here, and we got two massive cranes,

00:39and we lifted it up, and we plonked it on top of the shipping containers.

00:59So now, we use this for lots of things, events, photo shoots, parties.

01:04Some people rent it and stay here, have their kids' parties or anniversaries.

01:09It's used most nights of the week for something.

01:11Sometimes commercially, sometimes we just let it be available to artists.

01:16My favourite part of the plane is the switches in the cockpit.

01:20Not any particular switch.

01:22It's the sound they make.

01:23They have this amazing range of different clicks and clacks and things.

01:25They've got a really nice tactile feel to them.

01:27I love switches.

01:30Well, getting this plane here in this project has been one of the funnest things of my working

01:33life, and it's really good.

01:34It works well as a business, so I'm going to do another one.

01:37So I've got another plane lined up.

01:39The planning pre-application has gone in, and soon you'll see a full planning application

01:43for the next aeroplane in Bristol.

01:45And I think when you've got two planes, that's called a fleet.