all the late 60's founder of Playboy Hugh Hefner bought a personal aircraft called "The Big Bunny".

dobro88888888 (48)in #all • 7 years ago

In the late 60's the founder of Playboy Hugh Hefner bought a personal aircraft called "The Big Bunny".

His DC-9 had the opportunity to hit anywhere in the world. And the plane did it, accompanying the owner and his famous customers from Africa to Europe .

"Big Bunny" cost about $ 5 million, was equipped with the latest "gadgets" of that time and painted black.

"My reactive rabbits" - the owner of his stewardesses called it so.

And although the illustrious plane was used in Playboy only for six years, he left a memory of himself and his passengers in the form of photos and video .

The plane was called "Rabbit" until 1976.
Later the magazine could not contain it and sold it.

Then there was a short service in the Venezuelan airline "Aeropostal".
Then in the early 80's a silver-painted airliner successfully and successfully carried out shuttle services in Mexico ("Aeromexico") and even got into the story with rumors of a collision with a UFO.

In 2004, "Rabbit" was written off. He was waiting for a "scrap metal" fate, but one part in the form of a fuselage remained in the history. In Mexico