Plane Reclaimers are a company based in St. Athan in Wales which dismantle retired aircraft and recycle the parts. As they say, some parts are reused in other aircraft, repurposed into film sets and recycled into tin cans.
They also sell to the public, which means you can pick up some interesting items that could become talking points in your home. Let’s have a look at some of the things they sell.
Plane Reclaimers
At the moment, they have a bunch of items from two ex-British Airways Boeing 747s and a Virgin Atlantic jumbo among others. There are quite a lot of things such as cockpit controls and what not, which is nice. However, quite fun are things like seats! Especially in these pandemic times, you can pretend you’re flying while still at home.
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- A triple bank of economy seats will set you back a cool £349.99!
For budding cabin crew, you can get your hands on flight attendants jump seats (also £349.99), and buy yourself the cabin crew safety demo kit (£39.99). That way you can do the whole routine from your home. I think 10 year old me would have been in heaven owning these two things!
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- Life jackets are £24.99 and I kinda want one!
In addition to all of that, there are lavatory mirrors from Airbus A320s (£99.99), galley carts (£224.99), seat belt extensions (£19.99), seat markers (£29.99) and a whole lot more. You’d best get yourself off to the Plane Reclaimers web site and check it out.
Overall Thoughts
Just in case you are wondering, I have no affiliation with Plane Reclaimers. I happened to see it referred to earlier and thought it would be worth mentioning. Aviation people and plane geeks would certainly be into getting some of these items, especially if they had flown on the particular aircraft concerned.
Do you own any pieces of aircraft? Is it something you’d consider buying? Thank you for reading and if you have any comments or questions, please leave them below.
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Thanks Josh – keeping me honest 🙂
I have two really old TWA L-1011 Ambassador Class seats in my rec room. Fortunately I know (knew) a lot of TWA folks (including my Mom-still alive!) who were hip to an employee-only sale opportunity. I bid a mere $149 dollars for a set of 2 and I was the LAST person at the auction to get a set. The upholstery is getting a tad worn, and I keep them covered in this plastic cover thingy but you can still see the blue seats with red/white accents on them. Two friends of mine asked if they could join the “mile… Read more »
Now they must be pretty cool to own. I doubt there are many of those knocking around these days, so they’re true rarities and collectors items. Hahaha – I hope you told your friends it only counts if it’s up in the air 🙂
I told them, but they were jealous of my “membership” (nobody’s business!) but they were willing to pretend.
Hahahaha! I see 🙂