Retired airliners as bars/restaurants.

[red750]

About 10 years ago I answered an eBay advert for a collection of photos which this chap wanted to get rid of. He had been in an overseas air force (not sure which one, possibly Netherlands) and had travelled to many countires and air bases, and had this huge collection of colour slides and colour prints. He was going to throw them in the tip if no-one wanted them, and I jumped at the opportunity. With his permission, I have posted many on the internet, and included a number in the Showcase.

 

I was going through the prints again today and rediscovered the image below, which I believe is a Tupolev 134 used as a bar, from the look of the signage and decorations. There was no description on the back of the photo to identify where or when it was taken. Maybe someone here knows where it is located.

 

[onetrack]

Peter, the TU-134A was a former Czechoslovak Airlines aircraft that was decommissioned in 1991, and installed as a restaurant and bar in 1992, on the access road to the Brno Reservoir, a hydro dam on the Svratka River at the northwest edge of the city of Brno, Czech Republic.

To move it to the site, the aircraft was dismantled and transported in 14 truck loads, and then re-erected on the site.

Unfortunately, a careless diner ignited the aircraft with a stray cigarette in 2000, and it burnt down, totally destroying the entire setup.

The restaurant was called the Bystrckou (Bistro) Helena, and it seems it has faded from memory almost completely, as there is only one page about it on the Web. You need to translate the page.

 

https://brnensky.denik.cz/serialy/bystrckou-helenu-zabil-cigaretovy-nedopalek-20120710.html

[red750]

Thanks for the feedback OT.

[IBob]

 

McDonald's Taupo.

Yep, I know........sacrillege..............:(

[Cyrano]

This B727 is a home.

 

https://www.awesomeinventions.com/boeing-727-conversion-home/

[red750]

A retired Airbus A320 in Hawai Adda, India.

 

 

DC-10 in Accra, Ghana.

 

 

Fairchild C-123 Provider in El Avión, Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica:

 

 

Boeing KC-97 in Colorado Springs USA.

 

[red750]

Steaks on a Plane, Boeing 737, Boulton, U.K.

 

 

Runway 1, Haryana, India

 

 

The Space Shuttle, New York. Actually a DC3.

 

[440032]

Avalon just had 137 new restaurants open.

(But you'll need an ASIC to get in.)

[onetrack]

A Dutch couple who moved to the Stirling Ranges in W.A., have built a replica Dutch Windmill, and a Dutch house - and they have also engineered a WW2 Dakota into accommodation (for 2).

 

The Dakota (or more correctly, a C-47) is a rather famous aircraft, having been issued new to the NEI Forces in 1944, and it ran Dutch refugee missions from the East Indies to Australia during the War.

In 1947 she went to KLM, then to Garuda. In 1974 she did a belly-landing at Broome, and that was the end of her flying days. I'm not sure what happened to her between 1974 and 2012, when she arrived at the Lily.

 

The owners are aircraft-friendly, and have an airstrip right at their door.

 

http://www.thelily.com.au/accommodation.htm

 

http://www.flyingtheoutback.com.au/gallery/lily-dutch-windmill/

[old man emu]

Do these restaurants serve airline food?

[onetrack]

Here's a very British camping arrangement, involving the fuselage of an Airbus A319.

It appears that the owner couldn't afford the cost of purchasing and moving the entire aircraft, so he had to be content with just the largest section of the fuselage!

 

The owners must be looking for a degree of quirkness in their accommodation arrangements, as they also have a UFO you can camp in, and a Pacman-themed Yurt!

 

http://applecamping.co.uk/arabian-nights/

 

https://todayheadline.co/you-can-sleep-in-an-old-etihad-airbus-plane-in-wales/