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Jet owned by Elvis auctioned after sitting 30 years on New Mexico runway
AP via Los Angeles Daily News ^ | May 27, 2017

Posted on 05/27/2017 4:16:27 PM PDT by EveningStar

A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley has been auctioned after sitting on a runway in New Mexico for 30 years.

The plane sold for $430,000 on Saturday at an Agoura Hills event featuring celebrity memorabilia, GWS Auctions Inc. said...

The auction house says Elvis designed the interior that has gold-tone woodwork, red velvet seats and red shag carpet. But the red 1962 Lockheed Jetstar has no engine and needs a restoration of its cockpit...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: airplane; auction; aviation; elvis; elvispresley; presley
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To: gaijin

Holy Jeez, it looks like an airborn pimpmobile!


21 posted on 05/27/2017 5:40:32 PM PDT by W. (Trump: America's Churchill!)
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22 posted on 05/27/2017 5:43:49 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Elvis was never accused of having good taste in decorating.


23 posted on 05/27/2017 5:50:05 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: EveningStar
Lockheed Jetstar has no engine

If it is a Jetstar, it's going to need 4 engines, not an engine.

24 posted on 05/27/2017 6:31:18 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

“Sitting on a tarmac in Roswell, New Mexico...”

ALIENS!


25 posted on 05/27/2017 7:17:46 PM PDT by CTyank
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To: EveningStar

The Lisa Marie was the 1st private jet I was on...


26 posted on 05/27/2017 7:22:17 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: PAR35
I did a little search and those engines are hard to find. You could buy a fully flyable plane for $600,000 from the South African government though.

Looking at those original planes on Google images, they were badass.

27 posted on 05/27/2017 7:42:50 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: PAR35

After Elvis gained all that weight, maybe the original engines weren’t powerful enough.


28 posted on 05/27/2017 7:59:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: EveningStar

Darn it! Just the other day I was looking for a used Elvis jet ...


29 posted on 05/27/2017 8:00:43 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: EveningStar

I’m sure they need to replace any leftover Peanut Butter and Butter sandwiches The King had yet to eat.


30 posted on 05/27/2017 8:06:03 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Looking at the picture, it isn’t just the engines that are missing. The entire nacelle is gone.

There used to be a sorry excuse for an aircraft museum next door to the plant where these were made. Maybe someone could get some parts from them. As I recall from driving past a few times, a lot of their displays weren’t complete planes, anyway. Not like anyone would miss a few more parts being gone. - Just looked on Google - they do have a JetStar like I remember. Looks like they’ve come up with some more parts for some of the planes - they don’t look nearly as bad as they did a few years ago when I drove by. http://www.mariettahistory.org/aviation-wing JetStar nacelle in right most picture.


31 posted on 05/27/2017 8:16:18 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: virgil
Had no engines and the avionics gone.

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.

32 posted on 05/27/2017 10:22:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: CTyank
ALIENS

Now you know. . . Elvis was an alien. . .

33 posted on 05/27/2017 10:26:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Register it as an Experimental and put any damn engine on it that you want.


34 posted on 05/28/2017 3:09:42 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: hattend
"Register it as an Experimental and put any damn engine on it that you want."

The FAA ( & the EAA ) closed the door on that kind of stuff a number of years ago now. Putting an Auto Engine in a Certified aircraft or hacking up an old Tri-Pacer to make it your "STOL Special" can't be done straight Experimental anymore. "Experimental Exhibition" is what you'd have to register it in. More restrictive, some say, do your due diligence, your mileage may very.

35 posted on 05/28/2017 5:07:08 AM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: taildragger
The FAA ( & the EAA ) closed the door on that kind of stuff a number of years ago now. Putting an Auto Engine in a Certified aircraft or hacking up an old Tri-Pacer to make it your "STOL Special" can't be done straight Experimental anymore. "Experimental Exhibition" is what you'd have to register it in. More restrictive, some say, do your due diligence, your mileage may very.

Is the "Experimental Exhibition" certificate the official "Hold my beer and watch me while I try this" category of registration?

36 posted on 05/28/2017 10:30:32 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Judging by the condition of that runway, that wasn’t a problem. I am wondering who had that plane between 1977, when Elvis died and 1987 when it was abandoned.


37 posted on 05/29/2017 3:43:49 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Swordmaker
"Is the "Experimental Exhibition" certificate the official "Hold my beer and watch me while I try this" category of registration?"

LOL! No, however it is a more restrictive form of "Experimental" Category. It is to showcase your innovation etc, however I think anytime you fly or want to go somewhere ( airshow display ) your supposed inform the local FAA (FSDO) you are going vs Experimental where you fly off your 50 initial hrs and you follow the Experimental rules from then on. That gets to be a pain for them, so at somepoint either they let you go or I have heard sometimes they have changed designations from E.E. to just E.

38 posted on 05/29/2017 10:49:35 AM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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