no, nice video though

love your videos

Advice from someone that bought a junkyard airplane 😮

Elvis plane would make the coolest air bnb ever with a game like flight Sim

Jimmy sell everything you have and buy some cheep engines and get it flying again! You will hav a couple million dollars plane! I want to go for a ride! And save Elvis plane! Donation page! Let’s go!

100% and same here bro

I hope for the same

230 k for the airplane, no idea for renovations but would love to see the results

@@kimo3888 It's going to cost more than that. $450k alone for the flight control surfaces (yes crazy). not to mention inspections and getting it recertified to fly by the FAA; the engines (keep in mind this aircraft was built in 1962, and only about 202 of them were built, so finding airworthy engines with low hours is going to be a challenge (specifically the JT-12A-8). you'd be better off replacing them with more efficient and newer CFM engines (some companies have apparently done this before, but still very expensive). unfortunately, it may be very unlikely that this aircraft will ever fly again (say, for instance, that the airframe is found to have a major issue and can never be airworthy again.. not to mention the absurd cost). nonetheless, it would be very cool to put some high-hour engines on it and simply get it to the point where it can taxi using its own power. I think that would be more than satisfactory. anyway, this is unquestionably a cool project and I look forward to setting the results. as do you. (I apologise for writing an entire paragraph lmao)

@@kimo3888 at lest 1m

Nice - unbelievable

Only one of many jets Elvis used. The personal ones are still at Graceland. I wish you good luck in restoring it considering you seem to have your hands full with multiple planes.

Remarkable. Like this video. Glad we this history. Wonder if you could live in it thank you for buying it. Well worth it.. I meant to say glad we have this as a part of history 🙂

Elvis must have had more than one plane. He has one sitting at Graceland too

@@sleuer66 there's actually 2 at Graceland but yeah

Engine fault indicator light is on. Hmm that's odd.......I wonder why?

@@PWingert1966 Probably not because the engines were missing

@@humanperson1898 Egines go Brrrrrtt whooshhe bye bye?

If you are an aviator you should know him. He is a firecracker, funny, little crazy but grounded. Not literally grounded, he is a licensed pilot and entertaining

I make $12,000 a year washing dishes …

If I had 200k to spend on fun things..I would be super happy and excited about life just like this guy is..it would allow me to get the best health care for my loved ones and it would afford me more time on my hobbies..

@@davidgalea6113 how do people do it? I make $12,000 a year washing dishes. What have I done wrong???

His enthusiasm is awesome.

@@treystephens6166 think about what you would do you love and then figure out how to make money do it.

Personally, I'm not so sure how "genuine" his enthusiasm is, but I guess he's managing to make a living off YT, so there's that.

To see his excitement over the beacons and microwave working is awesome. To get this airworthy no less than 1.5 million at the minimum let’s hope he can get this piece of history restored and flying again. If anyone can do it, it will be jimmy.

No kidding he sure loves touching those knobs🤪

@@cupcakemcgee3175 even if it cant be air worthy…at the very least fix her up cosmetically and just keep her grounded and give tours for $10…..he will make the $1mill in less than 5 years tops

Restoration? The plan is the destroy it and turned it into a RV

It will never fly. Ever. It will need to be disassembled and moved, or simply scrapped. Four airworthy engines may be essentially impossible to find.

Well, i guess the amount of money needed to get that plane back in the air , would be insane.. So Museum. But let's see what happens. Cheers from Germany.

I do want to see it fly

My thought also. I say with all intended positivity he reminds me of the proverbial child that initially finds the box more interesting than the shiny bicycle that occupied it on Christmas morning.

I vote for it to fly again. Make it flying museum.

Yeah he dances around like a dingy schoolgirl don't he?

@@dcformee123 LMFAO

How about if jimmy mounts it to an class A pusher motor home chassis and drives the fuselage across the country.

Who really cares? I would have crushed it and laughed while doing it? It’s a junkies toy

Idk seems like it worked out for them being it sold for $250,000

@@internetpointsbank yeah, but look at how much it will cost to restore it back to 80% of it's original condition. Imagine how much the planes value would have been if it was in mint condition.

@FarEastindy I'm assuming they had the money, but to keep this jet maintained for 40 years you're talking millions and millions of dollars. It would've been cool to see, but whoever owned it didn't want to put money into it.

This was a plane owned by Elvis, but wasn’t one he regularly flew on. I think was basically bought for his wife or daughter thinking they’d use it. It basically just got parked and not used. One of the big problems with planes is they still cost a lot to keep up even if it’s just parked and sitting. So, they tend to get left alone then if someone wants to get it flying again it takes nearly a full rebuild of everything.

He's not going to fix it. Just going to make a bunch of clickbait videos with it.

I can't believe they still have the right plug to connect it. 😲

@@dbspecials1200 Those APU/GPU connectors will be a standard for a long, long time.... Thankfully ;-)

I actually worked on the APU for one years ago. That particular airplane was equipped with a Sundstrand/Solar T39 which was buried in our Hawker700s. In the Jetstar, you could have played a football game around the installation... There was that much room. I also got the opportunity to fly the simulator before my present company decommissioned it.

@@iamsalty1729I know all about Metroliners, I spent 5 thousand hour in them, mostly enjoyable.

​@@mitseraffej5812stop joshin

Agree. this was a blast to watch!

Takin' Care of Business

This was one of 3 he owned

@@craigwadey2122 I guess the King was the original Baller ! ..... WOW

He never used this one.

I am surprised he didn't smoke anything. The last thing I would be excited about would be the tv and microwave working. What happened to the instruments and radar? Also, I wish someone would air up the tires, it bothers my OCD. lol

@@donkendall1227 I was amazed that there was not one fire. I guess Mice and varmint respect Elvis.

You could probably buy a couple of G650s for what it would cost to restore this baby. The FAA had a JETSTAR they used to test various navigation aids that I would see at Wilmington Airport - ILG. Man - it was noisy. Haven't seen it since COVID.

​@@paleghostit will never fly again

@@donkendall1227 It going to need about 10 million plus to get it restored and that if it even possible? Best bet is turn it into a tourist attraction if anything, is more realistic?

WOULDNT COUNT ON THAT ELECTRICS WIRES CAN GET BRITTLE AND SHORT OUT BECUASE OF AGE DONT MATTER BE LEARYTOO

It was a bold move to power It up like that, i bet there are a dozen places where It can happen an electric short, where stuff has been removed and where rats have eaten the wiring, burning the plane to the ground Is a matter of minutes

@@gillespriod5509 well you have breakers so it’s unlikely to do much, things just won’t work. It’s also where it’s been laid up there isn’t much around that could cause damage . Reminds me of these old migs that were preserved in the Iraqi desert during the war there. They dug them up and they were just like the day they were buried by saddam. Still impressive though nothing went bang. The gpu will have trip systems on it and would trip if there was a current draw beyond a threshold It’s hard to tell what was energised in the video, seems to be the battery bus which is the low voltage side . I don’t know how jetstars are started (I.E pneumatic or motor) but if it’s the latter then the big current items are missing Since the inside seems preserved well then probably there isn’t scope for corrosion especially when they cocoon the planes in storage there anyway. TLDR I wouldn’t do such a thing to a plane stored in New England or somewhere wet but in the desert things are different

It works because nothing is made in China there!

Items built in the 60s 70s will always work their circuits and components were more robust than the ones today

Its not been 40 years do you listen? An oil company and other people owned it after Elvis may he RIP

​@BBURKE617 your cornbread aint done all the way in the middle.

I would rather have his motorcycle.

Me too! I could feel his excitement with every switch that successfully turned something on that plane on!

That's what I first thought,, looked like an old Jetstar from the 60s. Cool,

@@wayback75 exactly right - more or less just like the plane in the middle and towards the end of Goldfinger.

They didnt this was a second less used plane, that got sold to an oil company and then eventually to other people to now where it sat pulled apart

Maybe if people knew that Howard Hughes and Elvis were very close. Gives reason why it was left in Roswell. It sat in the exact spot they wanted it left, I'm assuming as nothing with them was random. It's said, Elvis partnered up with Howard Hughes and was at the helm of MacIntosh/IBM computers, ground floor. Elvis is good at what he does. I wouldn't be surprised if "someone" who actually knows that plan inside and out contacts him at some point.

Ok you bought it but how do you move it out of there it’s not able to fly and probably won’t be flying ever again

It will never fly again. Very unlikely it will even do ground runs. It will be for sale again soon.

If they can excavate a WW2 fighter plane out of a glacier and fly it again, this will be a piece of cake.

@@dougfisher1813 You think?

They probably hoped it would set on fire

Jimmy is blessed with millions of nickels.

The Jet had a guide price of $1.5m for the auction, Jimmy paid under $250k. I am pretty sure Jimmy has this all planned out

I'd make it a BnB for Route 66 passersby to generate some revenue to rehab it.

Careful what you wish for! Many years ago I had an infamous Porsche at my shop that had once belonged to Nicolas Cage, it had been stolen, dumped in a lake and found many years later, It was brought to me to restore, a local newspaper ran a story about it and the next day I was getting women from all over showing up to see it, I actually saw quite a few kneel down and kiss the driver's seat! I didn't have the heart to tell them that I'd been setting in it all morning working on dash wiring! This went on everyday for about 2 weeks! My situation it was just Nic Cage, just imagine the stuff crazy Elvis fans would be doing!

@@truthray2885 I'd haul it to Amarillo and bury it 1/2 way in the ground at the Cadillac Ranch. Let people paint their names on it for the next 25 yrs.

@@brownh2orat211 Nick CAGE?? GAH!!! "Ma'am, that seats got Nick Cage's and MY ass all over it."

No sweat, you got this Chris!

Heck yes!!! Good on you! Don't forget to wear your favorite shirt that day :)

Don't give this clown a single penny. He's got $200,000 to blow on an old jet.

@@hmbpnz I'll do damn-well what I like with my own money, thank you very much

The engines are gone, plus most of the instruments.....giant money pit

lets stared the elvis plaine back to live crowdfunding action!!!!!

Not worth restoring, the Jetstar doesn't have the book value, especially considering he spent over 200k on it. A Jetstar with low engine time is only worth 500k. On top of that, by the time he's got it flight worthy and passed all the inspections, he's over 1 million in. I own a jet commander 1121, and a simple corrosion inspection cost me 20k. He could maybe get 50k in scrap, but that's really it.

Agreed, I can't wait to see how this planes looks over the coming year or two! I saw that a guy from another large channel bid for this plane to, I think he was only prepared to go up to two hundred thousand or somewhere around there.

And one of the most expensive ones :)

Yeah. We would be glued for at least ten years. Something to tell our grandchildren.

Of course he can yeah it's going to be a big project but it isn't destroyed it's been taken care of I mean it's basically been in dry storage for decades

@@Brooke52528 I'm sure as hell glad he didn't win it that dude comes off as a bit of a snob to me