The rear fuselage tail viewed from the side of the backyard, at a glance. On both sides, the machine still holds the insignia of LAP (Paraguayan Airlines), once a symbol of national pride and aviation. Is a Boeing 707 that belonged to the state enterprise and no one knows how it got to this house in the neighborhood Villa Amelia San Lorenzo, a few blocks from the new shopping Pinedo. keepers place-a young couple-he said the owner is overseas and could not take pictures of the huge plane about 44 feet long, installed on your train original landing. The wings (almost 40 meter wingspan) held in place the two jet engines that heaven world ever plowed. Show, from any perspective, is stunning. According to aviation historian Tony Sapienza, the apparatus is in ownership "of one Aranda" and it would be the ZP-CCE, the first 707 of LAP, which was purchased, desguasado and reassembled in the yard where it is today. "Apparently, also bought some pieces of ZP-CCG to literally ride a plane from two parts.
I was told that such Aranda is an eccentric millionaire who has its own military museum in his house and bought the pieces of the 707 to "arm" a bar for the "friends" he wrote in a forum of airline pilots. Parties heightThe data matches the version of one of the residents, who demanded anonymity-on parties that were held previously, inside the device which adds the empty weight 55,000 kilos. "On weekends listening music and many guests arrived to join the private party organized in the plane. A friend went to one of those party and said that the music was awesome inside, but outside barely hear, "the source added. Like a secret, in charge of the residence would not provide the name of the eccentric owner 707. The house sits on 26 February and the Laguna Grande Piribebuy fraction, about 6 blocks from Avenida Mariscal Lopez. A small sign of "Dead End Street" shows the destination have the curious, that never fail. In the past three years, the neighborhood was filled with construction of new residences, some downright elegant.
A European and U.S. "That boeing 707 had capacity for 179 passengers and performed direct flights from Asuncion to Madrid, Frankfurt and Brussels, plus Miami in the United States and Lima, Santiago, Buenos Aires and other South American routes. I was his driver for several years, "said the commander meanwhile Aurelio Neon Aquino, Military Aviation Pilot Colonel (PAM). According to Aquino, who retired with 11,000 hours of flight, the plane had about 15 hours of flight range and was one of the jewels of LAP in full swing, "before privatization, which was negotiated" under the government of Juan Carlos Wasmosy. Sapienza Fracchia investigated the fate of the machine and found that the Boeing 707 was sold for scrap by the firm Lapsa (LAP privatized and converted into SA), between 1995 and 1996. B707 was one the first two jet LAP acquired in 1978 and began flying in early 1979. "It was built in 1965 or so," he said.
