A retired British Airways Boeing 747 was bought for $1.35 by an English airport and converted into a flightless ‘party plane’ event space — see inside the renovated Queen of the Skies

In 2020, British Airways sent its 747s to Cotswold Airport in England for storage, and the plains sat in rows until they were officially retired in October of the same year.

Source: British Airways

However, while most of the uniforms were sent to the junkyard to be disassembled, the airport did not want to let all of them go.

So, Cotswold Airport CEO Suzannah Harvey bid the airline if she could keep one of the 747s and repurpose it to preserve the Queen of the Skies’ legacy and beauty.

The airline agreed and sold it to the airport for just £1 ($1.35). As part of the sale, Harvey defined to Insider that BA has entrusted the airport to maintain the aircraft “as long as it is financially practical for the public use.”

“When you use the controls in the cockpit, that end actually has a physical effect by a wire on the 747s ailerons, wags, etc., but nowadays it’s all just computer,” Harvey explained. “So, it’s very special.”