In his teenage years, Bruce Campbell saw an airplane boneyard on television and became enamored by these winged yet grounded giants. As an adult, Campbell went into the field of electrical engineering, and in the 1970s, he purchased 10 acres of land in Hillsboro, Oregon. In a few decades, the land would be home to Campbell's future commercial airplane. According to CNBC, Campbell hired a salvage company in 1999 to help him locate an airplane he could purchase and convert into a permanent living space. It wasn't long before an Olympic Airways 70,000 pound, 200 passenger airplane turned up in Greece.
Campbell paid $100,000 for the plane and flew it from Greece to Hillsboro, Oregon, where the process began of ensuring the 1,066-foot plane would never fly again. While at the airport, it was stripped down. The engines and any remaining fuel in the plane had to be removed (per CNBC). Once the plane was ready, it had to be transported through the city of Hillsboro to Campbell's property in the woods. Getting the airliner into the forest wasn't the end of the adventure for Campbell. He spent the next few years transforming the plane into his home. Complete with two bathrooms, a shower, and a kitchen area. Campbell lives half the year in Japan, but for the other half, he lives entirely in his plane.
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