TY-BBW

[SpringHeeledJack]

TY-BBW, a Boeing 707 ex-Republic of Benin (and PanAm originally) was parked by a large canal in the Belgian town of Wetteren a few years back, ostensibly to become a theme restaurant. I flew over this, which is what piqued my interest. For some reason I thought of it again today, and upon looking for it on a map, it no longer appears to be there. Does anyone know what became of this aircraft ? Scrapped seems the most likely, as transporting it anywhere would have been very expensive.I know it's only metal, but it always makes me a little sad to see them go, or for that matter fade away.

[Big Eric]

Google is your friend, it was broken up in 1997 :- Aircraft Data TY-BBW, 1961 Boeing 707-321 C/N 18084 (http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/TY-BBW.html)

[DaveReidUK]

Google is your friend, it was broken up in 1997 :- Aircraft Data TY-BBW, 1961 Boeing 707-321 C/N 18084 (http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/TY-BBW.html)

Or, in this case, Google isn't really your friend.

Here it is in June of this year:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/739x474/ty_bbw_13d83f98878dee5ea87e1eab6d464fb65f3fd6c7.jpg

https://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Boeing-707-321/5570835/L

[N707ZS]

It looks in a similar state of dismantling to a previous photo so they might eventually return it to a complete airframe.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Thanks for the replies, it would seem as if it lives another day!

[MATELO]

slight thread drift.... but I think this is fantastic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4124672/Scrapped-Boeing-747-turned-Californian-wonder-house.html

[treadigraph]

I would love to turn an entire 747 into a house...

Is that one one of the ex-British Airways Helicopter's Chinooks?

[AndoniP]

The interior looks like a copy of the Elrod House in Palm Springs.