I now own (small) pieces of two of the aircraft that I helped design! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login They have many more choices at planetags.com.
Very nice, Jim. I never thought of doing something like that. If I had a piece of skin from all the airplanes on which I worked my wife would throw me out of the house for cluttering up the place. KC-97, B-50, B-52, KC-135, 707 (5 different models0, 720, 727, 747, 767, 777, and 2 versions of advanced 747's.
I have a drug-decal / metal data plate off an experimental Gulfstream GIV-X that was retrofitted to a production certificate and regular C-of-A. The "drug decals" are located on aircraft to show its production model and serial number. Useful for LEO and crash investigations if it survives. I would not really want any other aircraft skins or mementos. Be very aware the zinc chromate in skin primer is very toxic, especially as is degrades and forms dust and is airborne. I fear all of the Skydrol LD4 exposure I have had.
This used to be mine, but I sold it to Peter Jackson. Fokker Dr.I 570/17 WN 2240. Attached to the cowling. And no, I am old, but I did not work on Fokker Triplanes when they were built. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Plane tags are incredibly cool and I bought a bunch of the Gimli Glider ones to give as gifts. So awesome to hear the OP was involved in the design of the original aircraft.
I imagine that most people don't use them as keytags or bagtags and instead keep them on the backing cards as shown above. In that case, they hang nicely on a pegboard! And they have quite a few tags for your Boeings. For instance, you can get a tag with skin from "Lucky Lady II", the B-52 that flew around the world, and they have tags from most of the Boeing jetliners. Notice that the 767 tag is from the famous Air Canada "Gimli Glider" that landed deadstick after running out of fuel. They also have tags from a British Airways 767-300. And if you consider the Super Guppy a Boeing aircraft (it started out as a 377), they have those as well, in different color choices. They've even done a Titan missile and a Messerschmitt 109.
Somewhere I have a piece of fabric skin from a B.E.2C that I got at a British museum where they were reskinning the airplane.
They also did two runs of the SR-71 Blackbird that each sold out very quickly. Price was VERY high on those and I could not justify the novelty
Now you can buy one from a Boeing 707. This airplane flew with Lufthansa before apparently having a long career as a charter airplane for rock stars! https://planetags.com/products/custom-boeing-707-330-planetags-tail-n88zl
And now they've added the Beech Starship! https://planetags.com/products/beechcraft-starship-2000a-planetags-tail-n515js
Similar Idea, TMB in the UK makes cufflinks from notable Spitfires... and Ferraris Image Unavailable, Please Login
You can buy lots of things made from old plane or car parts. Our local Ferrari dealer has a coffee table consisting of a Testarossa engine block standing on end with a large piece of plexiglass on top!
The most opulent Planetags yet come from the most opulent L-1011 ever built. The all-gold version is expensive, but there are less expensive versions available. And remember that if you use PayPal, you can now pay in four installments: https://planetags.com/products/l-1011-tristar-500-planetags-tail-hz-ab1
Now here's a rare one! Rather expensive, though: https://planetags.com/products/xp-82-twin-mustang-serial-44-83887
I'm really surprised these guys are still in business. They actually did a reality show way, way, way back in 2004 of their struggles to get the company profitable. Lot's of drama. Some of it cringe worthy but that was reality TV back then. https://www.motoart.com/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429467/
Fokker D.VII(Alb)2684/18, built under license by Albatros, who actually produced more D.VIIs than Fokker with their two huge factories. The D.VII likely shot down more aircraft than any other in WW-I, Camel claims notwithstanding. Camel victories were grossly overclaimed. Owned this for a while. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Beechcraft Starship Image Unavailable, Please Login . Image Unavailable, Please Login . Image Unavailable, Please Login MotoArt’s Starship: N515JS N515JS, construction number NC-52, was built in 1994 and certified airworthy on January 27, 1995. It was leased to Osborn Energy from 1997 to 2003, then recalled and stored at Pinal Park, Marana, AZ with the remaining fleet. MotoArt acquired it in 2021, preserving this once promising, incredible looking aircraft and its history in the PlaneTags fleet. Story and pics of dismantling. https://planetags.com/blogs/planetags-blog/beechcraft-starship-an-aircraft-ahead-of-its-time https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10164804887535486 .
Agree. I remember watching. Early days of 'reality' TV. Looks like planetags have really 'taken off' for them but I'd love to have one of these: Image Unavailable, Please Login .
This is one I really wanted, because a sister ship to N8609 was the first aircraft I ever flew in! San Juan to New York-Idlewild in June of 1960. I know it wasn't N8609 because the card said that it wasn't delivered to Eastern until October. While it would have been nice to get it with Golden Falcon colors, those of course were long gone. Close enough for me! Image Unavailable, Please Login
I used to get these for my daughter each time she crewed a new plane as an international flight attendant. Was lucky enough to score one from a Qantas 747 she had worked on. Of course covid put an end to that career. John
