This man built a dream home out of two passenger airplanes that only costs $200 a month — see inside

Wed, 07/26/2023 - 09:48

McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and DC-9 Spirit Airlines fuselages that make up Joe Axline's plane house. — The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9 fuselages that make up Joe Axline's house.
Joe Axline

Joe Axline bought land in a private airport in Texas and two retired jets to create his dream home.
He renovated the 60-foot body of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jet into a three-bed home.
The second plane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, has a refurbished 1970s cockpit.

Joe Axline said he got the idea to turn an airplane into a house when, as a kid in the '70s, he watched a TV show called "The Magician." The show's main character was played by Bill Bixby and traveled from city to city in a plane solving crimes.

"I thought that was pretty awesome," Axline told Insider.