747SP and loads of spares, $9.5 million

AS.12 · August 29, 2018, 11:59:49 PM

The famous Qatari 747SP VP-BAT is up for sale.

http://vp-bat.com/

89 passenger Head of State interior.
Onboard "Fly Away Kit" which contains spare replacement for every AOG item contained safely in two LD3 containers.
Two spare engines.
Spare Auxiliary Power Unit.
Two spare nose wheels and two spare main wheels contained in third LD3 container.

I could just live in it, never mind flying it around!

PR19_Kit · August 30, 2018, 03:37:08 AM

A snip at that price, it's just about big enough to take all the stuff in my Loft and my built models too.

IIRC that was the most expensive 747 ever mad when it was built.

NARSES2 · August 30, 2018, 07:04:02 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2018, 03:37:08 AM

IIRC that was the most expensive 747 ever mad when it was built.

Freudian slip Kit ?

PR19_Kit · August 30, 2018, 07:31:55 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 30, 2018, 07:04:02 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2018, 03:37:08 AM

IIRC that was the most expensive 747 ever mad when it was built.

Freudian slip Kit ?

Total inattention to reading the post after I'd written it actually.

JayBee · August 30, 2018, 08:39:03 AM

Definitely Freudian but I think most appropriate in this case.

sandiego89 · August 30, 2018, 09:52:12 AM

I'm gonna pass on this one. I always considered the SP with its short fuselage to be a bit funny looking, and I don't want my tycoon/sheik/rich despot buddies laughing at me...

PR19_Kit · August 30, 2018, 10:56:21 AM

I flew in an SP once, but not like THAT one!

I was in South Africa and wanted a flight back from Cape Town, but BA didn't fly that route, and suggested I flew SAL to Frankfurt and then BA back to UK. It turned out that SAL used SPs on that routing as in the days of apartheid they were not allowed to fly over mainland Africa and flew all the way around the bulge of the African west coast.

I was astonished that a) we weren't going to stop anywhere, and b) that they showed TWO films as the flight was so long!

The food was brill though.

Mossie · August 30, 2018, 01:01:27 PM

Quote from: sandiego89 on August 30, 2018, 09:52:12 AM
I'm gonna pass on this one. I always considered the SP with its short fuselage to be a bit funny looking, and I don't want my tycoon/sheik/rich despot buddies laughing at me...

It should be named SD. Looks like a caricature of a 747. That said I find it kinda cute, I'm particularly fond of the SOFIA observatory, if anyone did an injection kit of it I'd be tempted.

jcf · August 31, 2018, 12:31:19 AM

Back in 1990-91 when the junk I worked/lived on was still anchored out in Keehi Lagoon off
the end of the Honolulu International reef runway, I used to watch the JAL SPs take off. JAL
operated a business man's "express service' between Honolulu and Narita, the climb out angle
was much steeper than the "normal" airliners.

Hobbes · August 31, 2018, 02:35:42 AM

I see Qatar found a worthy successor:

AS.12 · August 31, 2018, 03:18:49 AM

One of the pair of 747-8 is to be sold, too. Hard times for Qatar.

zenrat · August 31, 2018, 03:19:11 AM

I'll pass on this one.
I'm saving up for a Concorde.

PR19_Kit · August 31, 2018, 05:48:06 AM

To my utter amazement I found I have a resin 1/144 scale Sasquatch conversion fuselage for an SP in The Loft!

I can't ever remember buying it, but it must have cost a pretty penny, it's a LOT of resin! I'm torn now between building that lovely looking Qatari one, the SAL one that I flew in, or the glorious Alliance Air one with the massive lion's head on the tail.

kerick · August 31, 2018, 08:29:36 AM

It would be nice for the weekend get away!!