By Emma Dodd
A former aircraft technician is giving a BMI Baby Boeing 737 a new lease of life as he transforms it into a caravan.
Steve Jones can see the potential in the 27-year-old aircraft as a quirky place to enjoy staycations once the work has been completed.
He managed to get hold of the front section of the plane through his contacts in the aviation industry, reports AirLive News.
It measures nine metres in length from the nose to where it’s cut off at the fuselage just before where you’d expect to see the wings.
When finished, the plane will be a four-berth caravan complete with a galley kitchen, walk-in shower and toilet.
Some of the more deluxe features will include patio doors and a glass balcony, making a stay in the transformed aircraft even more unusual.
Mr Jones intends to rent out the caravan to visitors when it’s installed at a caravan park near his home in Lancashire.
The first job in the transformation was to give the plane a good wash, with years of accumulated dirt cleaned off the fuselage with a pressure washer.
Then he could start to turn his attention to the finer points of the build and its interior, which is still ongoing.
Mr Jones’ transformation of the 737 is not the first project of this kind he has undertaken, as he previously took the 13-foot-long housing of a VC10 jet engine and made it into a camper trailer for touring trips with his family.
No doubt the skills he learned during the bespoke trailer conversion will help with the 737. We can’t help but wonder what sort of plane he might take on next.
Follow Mr Jones’ progress on the project via The Boeing 737 Static Caravan Build group on Facebook.
Image credit: Steve Jones via Facebook
