An abandoned Boeing 727 plane once owned by Pablo Escobar has been transformed into the world's coolest Airbnb - and makes guests feel like billionaires.
The private jet resides on an industrial estate in Bristol - and comes with a hot tub and sauna and can cost up to £850 per night.
Originally built in 1968 and fitted out as a private jet in 1981, the aircraft was still flying up until 2012 - when it made its final journey to Filton Airfield.
Businessman Johnny Palmer, 41, secured consent from Bristol City Council for his project.
He now offers guests the chance to live like a billionaires at 32-feet.
The private jet resides on an industrial estate in Bristol - and comes with a hot tub and sauna and can cost up to £850 per night.
Originally built in 1968 and fitted out as a private jet in 1981, the aircraft was still flying up until 2012 - when it made its final journey to Filton Airfield.
Businessman Johnny Palmer, 41, secured consent from Bristol City Council for his project.
He now offers guests the chance to live like a billionaires at 32-feet.
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00:00Hey, I'm Johnny 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 and a year later I landed
00:18it 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, some people rent it
01:05and 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, it's the sound they make, they have this amazing range of
01:24different clicks and clacks and things, they've got a really nice tactile feel to them.
01:27I love switches.
01:30Well getting this plane here and this project has been one of the funnest things of my working
01:33life and it's really good, it works well as a business so I'm going to do another one.
01:37So I've got another plane lined up, the planning pre-application has gone in and soon you'll
01:42see a full planning application for the next aeroplane in Bristol and I think when you've
01:46got two planes that's called a fleet.