This Olympic Airways plane was converted into a beautiful home – see what’s inside

It’s possible that you’ve ever pondered what happens to retired aircraft. They are typically disassembled and sold for their scrap metal worth.

This is the tale of a plane, however, that was spared from that tragedy and given a fresh start! To find out more, continue reading.

Since 2012, an Olympic Airways aircraft from Greece has been parked in an Oregon forest. Bruce Campbell, a retired engineer, has always had a fondness for keeping retired aircraft from being scrapped. 2009 saw him buy the aircraft.

Not only did he pay thousands of dollars for the jet, but he also paid thousands more to have it transported to his ten acres of forest land and give it a spectacular new home.


Regarding his efforts, Campbell stated, “My goal is to change humanity’s behavior in this little niche.”

The retired engineer views life from a different perspective. He voluntarily sleeps on a sofa; unless he is hosting guests, he doesn’t even spread it out to its full breadth. He builds his own shower, rolling a piece of PVC into a four-foot-tall cylinder, and stores enough canned food to last him two months.

Published on Friday, April 7, 2017 by Global Times

He had no idea how important the plane was while he was purchasing it. When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis needed to move her second husband Aristotle Onassis’s body to its final resting place in March 1975, the jet was there.

Campbell discovered that there was a match when he looked up the registration numbers of his 727 aircraft online. The aircraft he was living in at the time was the same one that took Onassis’s remains from France to Greece following his death.


Greece’s primary airline was Olympic Airlines, formerly known as Olympic Airways.

In July of 1956, Onassis purchased the Greek state airline, which was known as T.A.E. He renamed it “Olympic Airways” with the goal of building an opulent airline that would astound everyone. He aspired to have the world’s most advanced airline.

However, the business stopped all activities on September 29, 2009. Rather, privatization at the time gave rise to “Olympic Air.”

Published on Friday, April 7, 2017 by Global Times
You would imagine that the aircraft this airline decommissioned would have been dismantled for scrap metal or allowed to decay, but one of them—which once carried well-known figures—remains intact and now houses a retired engineer with a unique idea in Oregon.

The aircraft’s inside includes a living area, an office, two working restrooms, and a temporary shower area. In order to facilitate meal preparation, he has equipped the airplane with a tiny kitchen and a laundry machine.

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