An Olympic Airways plane from Greece has been sitting in a forest in Oregon since 2012. Bruce Campbell, a retired engineer, is passionate about preventing the destruction of old aircraft for scrap metal. In 2009, he purchased the airplane.

He paid thousands of dollars to buy the jet and thousands more to carry it to the 10 acres of forest land he owned and give it a new, glamorous life.

Campbell said of his acts, “My goal is to change humanity’s behavior in this little niche.”

The retired engineer has a distinct perspective. He chooses to sleep on a sofa, never even opening it all the way until he is entertaining visitors. He has enough canned food on hand to last him for two months, and he rolls a sheet of PVC into a four-foot-tall cylinder to create his own shower.

While he was buying the jet, he was unaware of its significance. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a passenger when she had to fly her second husband Aristotle Onassis’ body to his final resting place in March 1975.

Campbell realized that the images he had viewed online had been a match when he compared the serial number of his 727 aircraft to them. Onassis passed away in France, and the aircraft he was residing in at the time was used to transport his remains to Greece.

Olympic Airlines, originally Olympic Airways, served as the national airline of Greece.

Onassis bought the Greek national airline, then known as T.A.E, in July 1956. He changed the company’s name to “Olympic Airlines” with the goal of becoming a world-class airline. He wanted to run the world’s most advanced airline.

On September 29, 2009, the business, however, stopped all activities. Instead, because of privatization at the time, “Olympic Air” was born.

One of the defunct airplanes from this airline—which formerly carried renowned people—is still in existence and is now the residence of a visionary retired engineer in Oregon. You may have expected the retired airplanes from this airline to have been destroyed for scrap metal or left to deteriorate.

There is a living area, an office, two functional lavatories, and a functioning makeshift shower facility inside the airplane. The owner of the aircraft even fitted a washing machine and a small kitchen for cooking.

The retired engineer made a beautiful home for himself out of something that was going to be demolished. This demonstrates a strong dedication! Give your family and friends a copy of this post so they can take advantage of this wonderful conversion as well.