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Assuming you don’t have a 1500–2000 metre heavy aircraft runway in your backyard, it’s the shipping costs that would likely kill you.


I guess it would have to be disassembled and shipped in pieces.

Unless a cargo blimp can take it. Do such things exist?


The Airlander 10 wrote off their old prototype, and has a maximum payload of 10 tonnes, whereas an unloaded 747 is about 180 tonnes. Remember it's a plane so big that they used to piggyback the space shuttle orbiters (which are not small) on it.


Sounds like it could be done in 20 trips.

Also sounds like even if they give the plane away, just shipping it will be a ~7 digit expense.

I hereby withdraw my interest!


I know nothing about this, but there are people who move their houses, surely a plane is easier than that.


I think you are grossly underestimating just how large a 747 is.


Check out the "spruce goose" and how it was moved.




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