Playboy’s Massive Bunny personal jet is taking to the skies once more after touchdown for the final time in 1975 when Hugh Hefner offered the enduring airliner to Aeromexico.
Often called the “Mansion within the Sky”, it has seen the likes of Cher, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Shel Silverstein as its patrons. It initially took off in 1970 when Hefner purchased the jet for US$5.5 million.
The brand new iteration of Massive Bunny has a shiny black exterior stamped with the enduring rabbit head and the unique N950PB registration quantity on the tail. The brand new Massive Bunny will return to its former responsibility of transporting artists, influencers, and thought leaders all over the world.
The brand new jet pays homage to its predecessor with its equally fashionable areas, created by Playboy’s in-house group and Worldwide Jet Interiors.
Anna Ondaatje, vp of worldwide model and franchise technique at Playboy, says: “One in every of our major influences was, naturally, the unique Seventies Massive Bunny jet — the rust-coloured pop-up seat in crushed velvet was immediately impressed by the orange leather-based seats of the O.G. Massive Bunny which might be so instantly recognisable.”
The brand new interiors featured custom-dyed cognac crocodile-embossed leather-based wall coverings, emerald-hued pure stone counter tops, {custom} herringbone ground coverings all through, sheepskin and leather-covered pilots’ seats, a SkyTheater–designed cinema system, and even a rotating artwork assortment from the coveted Playboy archives.
The aft-cabin options duelling mohair-upholstered sofas draped with two cashmere jacquard blankets with the N950PB tail quantity embroidered on them. Massive Bunny additionally doubles as a discotheque, similar to the unique plane, with multicolour nightclub-inspired lights.
Hefner famously liked to eat lobster and roast beef dinners whereas within the air, and the brand new Massive Bunny is again with decadent meals served on bespoke tableware. It consists of {custom} hand-blown Asp & Hand glassware, gold-rimmed Polish porcelain, and N950PB embroidered napkins. It additionally has a pop-up bar that emerges from one of many cabin’s credenzas.
Ondaatje says the design of the aircraft permits company to take pleasure in themselves irrespective of the place they’re within the area, and a part of the journey is being on the plane itself.
One other luxe plane making current headlines is Chelsea FC proprietor Roman Abramovich’s “Bandit”. The Boeing 767-300ER with its given nickname because of a black stripe painted across the cockpit window that resembles a masks. It’s being provided an asking value of US$100 million because the billionaire had bought a brand new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
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