Abandoned 737 Private Jet Will It Start?

I explore an amazing abandoned 737 private jet!

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0:00 737 Abandoned Private Jet
1:07 What is it?
10:39 Hidden Secret
12:32 We Get inside
18:37 A terrible trick
21:13 The future for this private jet
30:24 The craziest bathroom I've ever seen
35:25 Poor decisions
42:10 Power On!!!
45:12 Thank you Tom
55:58 Drake
1:10:08 How much $$$ to get it flying again
1:18:10 Will it Start?
1:25:55 Same pilot for 42 years

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[therealjimmysworld]

Own a piece of Elvis Presleys private jet www.SaveThe310.com

[simonrichards-theaussierea]

My friend is a retired Delta Captain and currently flies a 737-200 BBJ for a wealthy private family (Midwest). I've been in the jet. Gorgeous inside. It has a queen bed in the rear suite, plus two full stand up showers. All of the underfloor baggage compartments bar one have been converted to additional fuel tanks to increase the range. It's an impressive piece of machinery!

[fex]

Ask price for this 737-200 is $1.9Mil
This aircraft was flown under part 91 but actually was following an inspection program that was similar in nature to a part 121 or 135 inspection program. The last work scope for the aircraft was written by Centurion using the Boeing MPD inspection criteria and a C-check and 2C-check was performed on it in September of 2021. So, the aircraft was in certification till the end of September 2023. Nose gear inspection due date lapsed before the last C-check did. The last inspection done in September 2021 was good for two years.

Paint job was done in 2010
Overhauling a 737-200 today is not cheap, the asking price is a pipe dream, as mentioned below there are a handful of 737-200 operators they may be interested in the parts to keep there's flying. IMO the value is all in the engines, assuming they have been preserved for the last 2 years and there is 1/2 life remaining, if not it's worth $250K as is where is, I would not pay a penny more. $3Mil-$4Mil is probably right to get this 737 fresh from check and zero timed, even this no one in their right mind would pay that when you have plenty of other options.

[Will-uw]

I also flew that same 737. I was a SWA Captain and was with SWA for 20 years. Same amount of total time as the Captain in the video. Fond memories.

[bjet]

I was a F/O, Captain, Check pilot, Instructor and head of standards for a major airline on the 737-200 fleet. The -200 was a good airplane but slow. Normal cruise speed was .73 Mach and would start to aerodynamically shake much faster than .76. It was supposed to be able to fly at .78 but it just didn’t like it. Our charge for dual instruction in the actual airplane, not a sim, was about $2, 000 an hour in the 90s.

Enjoy Jimmy!

[richardbeals]

Speaking of backing u p with the reversers, my wife and I were on a flight from Detroit to Phoenix with a stop in as I recall KC. We were supposed to just stay on the same plane, but after landing at KC they told us we were changing planes. After we all changed planes and sat for about 30 minutes, they then said never mind, we have to all get back on the original plane so we all got back on the 1st plane. After sitting for about another 45 minutes and the pilot telling us several times they were waiting on a tug to push us back he came back on the intercom and said he was tired of waiting for the tug and we were leaving. The engines started, started to spool up and all of a sudden all kinds of dirt, weeds, dust etc started flying past the windows and we backed away from the terminal and were on our way.

[TheRealKlinky]

I'm from Zimbabwe & we still have an old 737-200 still in service, she was delivered in 1986!...her name is Ambuya Nehanda & she's a beautiful old girl!

[CanardBoulevard]

My brother still flies these 737-200's for Raglan Mines in Canada. They are the only commercial passenger jets with gravel kits on them that allow them to be landed on gravel runways in the northern parts of Canada.

[calvinh.]

The rear bathroom with the couch is the "Mile-High Club" room. lol.

[RealMrStoofus]

Cleetus has the space for it, it’d make an awesome office/airbnb thing

[johnnunn]

About smoking on aircraft. The engineers weren’t happy about the ban on smoking in aircraft because if there was a crack in the fuse, the pressure of the cabin would be squeezed through the crack and be visible on the fuse skin, due to the tar from the smoking.

[nicolassales]

22, 000 flying hours and nothing happened. What a great tribute to the Boeing of old!

[portneuf]

Wow ... just ran across this video because I was interested in seeing the jet. I didn't realize I was going to have to watch you open, touch, try and play with every little thing inside. It's like being with my brother's kids on a vacation. Haha

[macstone]

My next door neighbour here in Germany is the famous Lufthansa Pilot Jürgen Vietor, who landed this type 737 full of passengers in the sand in Africa, because the runway was blocked. Of course I am talking about the hijacked flight ending in Mogadishu. Very robust plane, not like the new ones.

[FloorItDuh]

Reading the comments makes me realize how many people didn't seem to watch the full video to understand this is really nothing more than a tour. A school is buying the plane, not Jimmy. Additionally the comments reveal how many people have no idea what they are talking about with aviation even if they think they do.

[gcrauwels]

This aircraft #22675 was delivered to Southwest airlines on 12 Feb 1982. Flew for them until ~ '04 before it was 'retired' at Mohave. Changed hands a few times after being converted to VIP. Owned by Mission Aviation. The Canadian cargo airline that still flies the -200 is Nolinor, and they have gravel kits installed

[cherifbar]

I learned some fifty years ago that in order to make a small fortune in aviation one needs to start out with a large fortune.

[stephenreese]

Try selling it to Buffalo Airlines. They are expanding their cargo fleet and have at least one 727 in their fleet.

[MrSuzuki]

I flew the 737-200 as shown here, for 10 years when I was a pilot for United. In fact, I have the entire forward instument panel you see here not 6 feet away from me sitting on a book shelf.

[bradok]

That was so cool. For John to have flown that exact plane for Southwest, and then again for a couple of years is a trip. Awesome video, thanks Jimmy.