After letting you seep through the recycled shipping containers and the beer bottles, now it’s time to add wings to your imagination. Eco-fanatics, in a way or the other, keep on morphing discarded objects into something useful but, have you ever thought of airplane restitution. Isn’t it worthwhile to lend the dumped air-crafts with some utility even after they’ve stopped ruling the skies? Here, we’ve listed some of such salvages that are sure to inspire you:
1) Boeing 747 Restaurant:
Better Days: It was the second Boeing 747 ever made and the first one to take a commercial flight.
Now: While getting a makeover, the Boeing was reassembled to be used as a restaurant. The cockpit is converted into a seating space and has a bar trinket also. Though it’s not in a perfect shape even now, it still stands proud following a fabulous remodel.
Location: Seoul, South Korea
2) Jumbo Hostel:
Better Days: It took flights for Singapore Airlines and Pan Am. Last operation dates back to the time when Transjet, a bankrupt Swedish airline, was running.
Now: The Jumbo Hostel has 25 rooms, a lounge bar, first class seats and oxygen masks. Taking recycling to newer heights, engine compartments will be replaced by new rooms.
Location Stockholm, Sweden
3) El Avion Restaurant:
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Better Days: The hotel is carved out of a US warplane used during the Panamanian war. Perhaps it used to supply ammunition to the Nicaraguan Contras and went down in 1986.
Now: El Avion caters to the upper middle class while specializing in seafood. It has a bar built inside the plane.
Location: Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Better Days: Before getting recycled as a hotel, it used to be a part of the New Zealand Air force.
Now: Two of its chief parts i.e. cockpit and tail have transformed into grand suites. These suites tout full bathrooms and separate kitchens.
Location: Otorohanga, New Zealand
5) Costa Verde Resort
Better Days: The airplane used to transport passengers on South Africa Air and Avianca Airlines.
Now: The hotel is set inside a Boeing 727 of mid 60s. It has a two-bedroom, two-bathroom suite with a kitchen and a dining room.
Location: Quepos, Costa Rica
6) Boeing 737 Dive Reef:
Better Days: It was an inseparable member of Air Canada.
Now: The Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia has renovated it and has made a recreational dive site out of it. Since this 30-metre long Air Canada Boeing 737 sunk about a kilometer off the east coast of Vancouver Island, on January 14, 2006.
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
7) Lot-Ek’s Airplane Library:
Better Days: The constituents used to be the parts of Boeing 727 and 737 airplanes.
Now: Refurbished airplane fuselages wint into the fabrication of this library. New York’s urban architect recyclers, LOT-EK, have designed it.
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
8) Aircraft-based Classroom:
Better Days: The decommissioned craft was in use on routes to Ireland and Spain.
Now: The 82ft-long commercial airliner is undergoing recycling and is supposed to provide a learning space for geography lessons.
Location: UK
9) Recycled Airplane Pavilion:
Better Days: This Boeing 747 airplane was a part of the US airliner crew.
Now: The mid-air Pavilion has a flexible seating system, a metal grated floor, and uniquely carved benches and lounges. Also, the Pavilion is networked with Ethernet connections and has adjustable, integrated projection screens.
Location: The plane section overlooks a sloping site at the Lake Union and is located at the University of Washington, Seattle.
10) Boeing 727-200 Home Project:
Details: Each house in the project included cockpit windows replaced with Lexan, both wings removed and reinstalled at the wing root and the center engine inlet. It further included the upper and lower rudders to give the vertical stabilizer a complete appearance. Landing gear doors in the up and closed position give a streamlined external appearance to the recycled aircrafts. Along with it, the interior includes a center ceiling air conditioning duct and ceiling panels with fluorescent lights.
11) Plainly, a Plane house:
Details: This derelict plane is going to be recycled into a house. David Hertz cut it into parts to form various curves. The would-be owner, Francie Rehwahld is optimistic about the project and believes that the house is completed in a year or so.
12) Plane Restaurant
Better Days: While on a flight from Libya, this aircraft was attacked by an Iraqi fighter.
Now: The restaurant has a large “dome” that serves a bar area and a small dance floor.
Location: Damascus, Syria
13) Dine in a Plane:
Better Days: The Boeing KC-97 tanker was used during WW2.
Now: Now, it has been transformed into a 275 seat restaurant where 42 patrons can dine together. It’s fast-developing into a tourist attraction.
Location: Colorado, United States
14) Recycled Airplane Wing Desk
Details: For those interested, this recycled airplane wing desk at Reestore costs a huge $5000. It’s an extraordinary example of recycling. Exclusively designed for Theo Paphitis, now it’s available to all. It touts stainless steel legs topped with casehardened glass.
15) Boeing Airplane Cabin:
Details: Boeing Aircraft remodeled into a wacky cabin went on sale at $ 560.55 only. The 19 sq. feet area is equipped with first class double seats, two fully-equipped airplane toilets, a kitchenette, storage lockers, and on board in-flight video equipment.