For just a tad over $2 meeeellion dollars, you could own this home about 4.5 hours from El Paso but don’t count on a lot of room on the first floor … there’s a 727 parked there.
The home is located near the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas; home of the world famous Terlingua chili cookoff. The current owner bought the retired Fed Ex jet in California and had it trucked to Terlingua.
The 3,040 square foot plane/home has 2 stories, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and sits on an 80 acre property.
“When you step in the house, it looks like the plane is ready for takeoff,” he said, adding that the total cost of the project exceeded $1 million. “There are taxiway lights on the ground, retired passenger seats from a Southwest Airlines plane, massive windows in the front of the house, and the control panel is illuminated, so it looks like you’re flying. It’s a surreal experience. – mansionglobal.com
Get more info and see some pics of the “Terlingua Jet House” here. If the Lara brothers can’t figure out what to do with the bargain jet they bought from the city of El Paso, maybe they can do what this guy did.
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They had theirs trucked to far east El Paso where they are currently trying to decide what exactly they want to do with it. Here are a few ideas I came up with for them. If it was mine, I think I’d go with the smuggling school idea. That tuition money would come in way handy.
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