Had no engines and the avionics gone.
Bet Elvis shagged quite a few babes in that mile high club vehicle!!
Salute!!
“Had no engines and the avionics gone.”
...and sitting for 30 years. It will cost a fortune to make that plane airworthy again.
Exactly. Almost all of the flight instruments have been stripped out of the cockpit. It will be a Herculean effort to restore this aircraft to even a semblance of flight appearance much less flight capability.
I read the auction blurb on this lot before the sale and they basically stated it would have to be dismantled and shipped to the buyer's destination. The auction house strongly implied that any buyer should plan on doing restoration as a tourist attraction, not as an air worthy aircraft. The auction estimate was a very exaggerated $2.5 million to 53.5 million. It brought only $430,000 plus an 18% auction premium, IIRC.