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Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10k

'One man's trash is another man's treasure.'

When the massive project is finished, 40-year-old Ismael Lara tells Popular Science that he hopes the plane can serve as an educational tool and visual attraction to bring more excitement to his hometown. Its previous owner, a charter company called Blue Falcon Corp, had reportedly stopped making payments for the storage space after its president died in an unrelated plane accident. Initially, the effort required two cranes, a couple dozen workers, and several large trucks to take apart and transport major sections of the fuselage and cockpit—all of which drove up their costs.

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