A Man Bought An Old Airliner For $100,000 – Then Transformed The Interior Into A Spectacular Home

There can’t be too many people who’d see an old airliner as a perfect place to live. But when Oregon man Bruce Campbell purchased a retired plane for $100,000, he had a vision. He had the imagination and the skill to set about turning the passenger jet into a home. And the result of this flight of fancy is a piece of real estate that really is something else.

'Old nerd' by nature

Campbell himself has confessed to being something of an “old nerd” by nature. After all, as a former electrical engineer, the senior citizen has spent much of his life pursuing technological achievements. He has never married, and he’s claimed on his own website to be “socially inept” as a person.

Lover of adventure

Yet while Campbell may think of himself as a geek, this doesn’t mean he’s averse to a spot of adventure. This is probably why he purchased a ten-acre plot in the woods when he was a young man in his 20s. This space is situated outside Hillsboro, which itself is near the Oregon city of Portland.

Untraditional property

And Campbell has been skeptical about one of the more traditional ways of purchasing a property. In 2017 the former engineer was interviewed for an episode of FLORB’s YouTube series Alternative Living Spaces. There, he explained, “When I was young, I didn’t want a mortgage.”

Taking a different path

So, since Campbell didn’t want to borrow the money to buy a house, he went about things differently. He revealed, “I could have purchased a home and shouldered a mortgage like most people do. But I was happy enough living in a very humble and very inexpensive mobile home.” And that’s exactly what he chose to do.