Used Passenger Jets for Sale

BULLISH THE FORMULA! BULLISH THE FORMULA! Ever dreamt of buying your own Boeing 747? In the next two to five years, the used Boeing 747 could reach historically low prices as the world' offer of 747s to be sold goes up to unparalleled heights. When the next generations of wide-body airliners, such as the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8, arrive, several hundred of today's oldest 747s - mostly 747-200s from the seventies, which are currently used as cargo airliners - will soon be put to use.

The Aviation Week sketches the underlying factors behind the upcoming increase in 747 used aircraft inventories: There are signs of a massive phase-out of the globally obsolete cargo ship fleets, in particular the Boeing 747-200. According to Boeing, 40% of the 320,747 cargo aircraft in operation are at least 25 years old, but continue to fly because heavy demands for new passenger jets and Airbus A380 deliveries delay have prevented the provision of spare aircraft.

Boeing freighter James Edgar says that the old 747s will be "decommissioned in droves" over the next few years as aircraft cell manufacturing picks up pace with world transport and passenger transport such as the 747-400s is cleared for freighter overhaul. Some of these 747-200s will unavoidably keep flying, and some can be transformed into technological test beds or oversized personal jets.

What will a used 747 be like? When you are on the air for an whole plane, you are expecting to spend around $100,000 on a fuselage that has been freed from re-usable parts such as thrusters, undercarriages, and dashboard electronics. Different hillbillies have already turned smaller Boeing 727s into prefabricated homes (interior here ), and a Southern Californian lady made news in 2005 when she was told she was going to use various parts of a 747 to construct a high-end home in the Malibu area.

A 747 part of the dashboard could, for example, be transformed into an elegant backyard salon or an administrative pod: Curved portions of the 747's hull can be used to build Quonset cabins or outbuildings, such as this raw 747-based shed we saw in action at an airplane dump: "We are speaking with some optimism, because in 2005 Telstar Logistics was paying $375 for a large part of a Boeing 707.

Anyway, look out for a cemetery near you as these hundred of old 747s start arriving for Hospice nursing.