Jon also knew that when school wasn’t in session, the plane would make for a really unique Airbnb. So, in 2022 he began searching for a plane – which wasn't a simple task. “Usually, old airplanes are sold off to scrap companies for recycling. They're then crushed into beer cans,” he explains.
It took six months to find the 1950s Douglas DC-6, which had originally been used for hauling cargo and fuel around Alaska. To Jon, it was perfect. The next hurdle was figuring out how to transport it home – and at 104 feet (32m) long and 117 feet (36m) wide, that was a daunting prospect.
To move it, Jon, his girlfriend and a friend travelled to Fairbanks, Alaska, where the plane was located, and began to disassemble it. It took them four days, working 16-hour shifts, to remove every bolt and cut off the wings to make it smaller to transport.