A Boeing 727 cargo jet embarked on a final journey this week. It was carefully hauled from Anchorage down the asphalt of the Glenn Highway to Big Lake, where a man has plans to convert the aircraft into housing.
to the property last fall, with plans to renovate those aircraft into housing, too.
Kotwicki said he and Blanchard wanted to open a live-in flight school so students can fully focus on becoming pilots. They flew to 49 states to look at possible locations, but Kotwicki said that each time, they realized they missed Alaska. About a year and a half ago, they found the perfect location, he said: a 100-acre property in Big Lake with an airstrip. They started constructing cabins and during that process came up with the far-fetched idea to convert large planes into some of the housing units.
Ten years after it touched down at Merrill Field, the plane again got special permission for transport — this time, a stateWith the transport complete, Kotwicki said now that the goal is to have the plane converted and ready for guests by midsummer. Kotwicki estimates the cost at between $600,000 and $800,000 to move the plane and renovate it. He said he plans to charge somewhere in the low $200 range to rent units each night. He said he couldn’t disclose how much he paid for the plane itself, because of his agreement with the university and FedEx.“Hundreds of people helped us do this,” Kotwicki said.
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