In article <pg9k5k01gnk@drn.newsguy.com>,
Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote:
> more at https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8461533/private-
> jet-elvis-presley-for-sale
>
> pics
> http://www.ironplanet.com/for-sale/Aircraft-1962-Lockheed-Jetstar-1329-
> Jet-Elvis-Presley-Previous-Owner-New-Mexico/1477613?h=5000%2Cc%7C
> 1220%2Csm%7C0%2Cms%7CM%2Cmf%7C1&rr=0.5&hitprm=&pnLink=yes
>
> A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley that has sat on a runway in New
> Mexico or nearly four decades is back on the auction block.
>
> The online auction site IronPlanet announced this week that the plane with
> red-velvet seats had returned the market after its current owner bought it
> last year for $430,000.
>
> A previous auction house says Elvis designed the interior that has gold-tone
> woodwork, red velvet seats and red shag carpet. But the red 1962 Lockheed
> Jetstar has no engine and needs a restoration of its cockpit.
>
> The plane was owned by Elvis and his father, Vernon Presley.
>
> It has been privately owned for 36 years and sitting on a tarmac in Roswell,
> New Mexico.
That must be different jet than the "Lisa Marie" that is/was part of the
Graceland attraction. I went inside that one one time. Maybe the Lisa
Marie replaced that one since it was getting pretty old even in the '70s
(a lesson poor Elvis rival Rick Nelson had to learn the hard way).
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