Once Erich was Honecker with it on the way, now becomes an old GDR government machine in the Netherlands to the luxury hotel.
The tourism entrepreneur Ben Thijssen invests 450,000 euros, in order to convert the propeller-driven aircraft of the type IljuschinIl-18 and with Whirlpool to equip sauna and house bar.
As the newspaper De Telegraaf reports, the machine is to receive Teuge in this summer beside the airfield with Apeldoorn of guests. She was built more than five decades ago in the Soviet Union and is not flightworthy long any longer.
While the passenger compartment in western five-star ambience will light up, the cockpit in the original remains, said Thijssen. “GDR boss Erich Honecker flew often with the machine”, said he. “In the cockpit there is therefore particularly an additional seat for a state security service agent, who had to always watch out that course and flight plan were kept.”
The Netherlands entrepreneur discovered the abgewrackte Il-18 according to own data in the village Harbke (Saxonia-Anhalt) between Braunschweig and Magdeburg nearby the former German domestic border. It was used there some time long as tavern.
“I bought it immediately for the scrap value of 25,000 euros, because on so an opportunity I waited for a long time.” Thijssen is sure that its “Honecker hotel” is well booked.
The tourism entrepreneur Ben Thijssen invests 450,000 euros, in order to convert the propeller-driven aircraft of the type IljuschinIl-18 and with Whirlpool to equip sauna and house bar.
As the newspaper De Telegraaf reports, the machine is to receive Teuge in this summer beside the airfield with Apeldoorn of guests. She was built more than five decades ago in the Soviet Union and is not flightworthy long any longer.
While the passenger compartment in western five-star ambience will light up, the cockpit in the original remains, said Thijssen. “GDR boss Erich Honecker flew often with the machine”, said he. “In the cockpit there is therefore particularly an additional seat for a state security service agent, who had to always watch out that course and flight plan were kept.”
The Netherlands entrepreneur discovered the abgewrackte Il-18 according to own data in the village Harbke (Saxonia-Anhalt) between Braunschweig and Magdeburg nearby the former German domestic border. It was used there some time long as tavern.
“I bought it immediately for the scrap value of 25,000 euros, because on so an opportunity I waited for a long time.” Thijssen is sure that its “Honecker hotel” is well booked.
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