Plane cockpit for sale as one-of-a-kind ‘man cave’

Half a Boeing 737 is for sale, and it could make an ideal hideout for aviation buffs. 

Steve Jones, a former RAF engineer from the UK, is selling a “fully-fitted cockpit” sitting in his backyard. 

The entire fuselage section of the Boeing 737-500 plane is for sale on Facebook Marketplace for £25,000 ($50,000). 

Jones, a keen aviation enthusiast, had originally planned to convert the plane into a glamping pod. 

When he bought the aircraft, it had been sitting at the end of a runway for nearly a decade and was about to be scrapped.

“I took an angle grinder to it because I thought I would be pushing it with my wife Charlotte if I took the whole aircraft home with me,” Jones explained. 

But a change of plans means Jones is now selling the Boeing 737 section instead. 

“The pandemic came and I became a dad for the third time and I realised I wouldn’t be able to dedicate myself 100 per cent to running the site, and so I put it up for sale,” he told Wigan Today. 

So far, Jones’ post about the aircraft section has been viewed over 500,000 times. 

“There has been a lot of interest, particularly from Indian restaurants. It has novelty value and could be put to all kinds of different purposes,” he said. 

In the online ad, he suggests the plane could be used as a glamping pod, home office, classroom, bar, or man cave. 

The aircraft might be truncated in size, but it weighs around five tonnes. 

At ten metres long and 3.8 metres wide, there’s enough room for four bunk beds. For a more luxurious option, it could also be converted into a one-bedroom romantic getaway.

All the plane’s original features are in place, including a fully-fitted cockpit with pilots’ seats and a classic airplane toilet. 

Jones, who has a contract with a local haulage company, says he is happy to deliver the plane section to the future buyers. 

It isn’t the first aircraft that the ex-RAF engineer has bought. In 2020, a tiny caravan pod he built from a VC10 aircraft was featured in the British television show George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.