Have you ever dreamed of living inside an airplane? Now you can, thanks to a Boeing 727 home in Texas that has caught the attention of avgeeks around the world.
Over the years, aviation enthusiasts have converted everything from airplane fuselages to control towers into living spaces. But this one is different.
Hidden deep in the Big Bend Country of Texas, the “Endless Skies Retreat“It combines the spirit of flight with the solitude of the desert. And lonely it is… this place is in the middle of nowhere.
Built in 2023, the property sits on 80 acres near Terlingua, a remote mining ghost town about 75 miles from the US-Mexico border and about 15 minutes from the entrance to Big Bend National Park. The home measures 3,040 square feet and has four bedrooms, three full bathrooms, and enough space to sleep eleven people. Despite being off the grid, it has electricity, fiber internet, and many amenities. So even in the desert, you will be able to stream ATC live.
Inside, aviation images fill the walls, from cockpit prints to aerial photographs. A covered deck and patio overlook the rugged Texas landscape, while a wet bar, home theater with reclining airplane seats, and dedicated home office make it a fully functional retreat. The property went on the market on August 11, 2025, with an asking price of $2.1 million.
From the outside, you would never guess that part of this house was once at 35,000 feet. However, as you walk through the doors, your eyes will immediately be drawn to a 40-foot section of the forward fuselage of a Boeing 727, cockpit and all.
How an AvGeek Built His Dream Home on a Plane
The idea for the Boeing 727 home in Texas comes from Adam Baker, 35, an operations planner and geek at Southwest Airlines in Dallas. In an interview with a luxury real estate website global mansion, Baker explained that he had been dreaming of building a house like this for ten years.
In 2019, Baker paid $60,000 for a vacant desert lot that had its own mountain and some streams. Drawn to the remoteness and beauty of the Big Bend region and the Christmas Mountains, he decided to create something that reflected both his love of aviation and his desire for solitude.
That’s when he found his centerpiece: a retired FedEx Boeing 727-233/Adv, once registered as N266FE. More recently, the aviation sciences department at California Baptist University in Riverside had used the plane as a classroom.
How to move the fuselage of a Boeing 727 from California to Texas
Baker bought it for $30,000, cut it into pieces and trucked it from California to Texas. With the help of a crane, he placed the fuselage on a custom steel structure that forms the lower level of the house.
Inside section 727, Baker built a bedroom and lounge that still look and feel like an airplane cockpit. The upper level includes additional bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room with panoramic desert views. He estimates the total cost of the project at more than $1 million.
To complete the experience, Baker added finishing touches only a geek would appreciate: working taxiway lights along the driveway, old Southwest Airlines passenger seats in the theater, and an illuminated control panel that glows like it’s ready for throwback. The effect makes visitors feel like they are in the flight deck, not in the middle of the Texas desert.
Baker called his creation Infinite Skies Retreat, and although he lives in Dallas, his hope is that the home will continue as a high-end vacation rental for aviation enthusiasts around the world.
The story behind this Boeing 727
The plane at the center of this Boeing 727 home in Texas has an impressive pedigree.
Built in 1979, the Boeing 727-233/Adv with manufacturer serial number 21672, first entered service with Air Canada on November 1 of that year as C-GAAS.
For more than a decade, it transported passengers throughout North America during the heyday of trijet travel. When Air Canada retired its last 727s in 1992, this airframe was sold to FedEx and reregistered as N266FE.
FedEx 727-233F/Adv (N266FE)
Delivered on May 5, 1993, it served as a cargo workhorse for two decades before the cargo company, once the world’s largest operator of the Boeing 727 (at its peak, FedEx operated 170 of the type), retired its remaining fleet of 727s in 2013.
Donated to the Aviation Sciences Program at California Baptist University
Prior to its final landing, N266FE was stored at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville (VCV) in 2012. In January 2013, it was donated to the California Baptist University aviation program at Riverside Municipal Airport (RAL), where it was converted into a static teaching airframe. Its registration was officially canceled the following month.
For several years, the old trijet sat quietly on the university campus until Baker bought it and gave it a new mission. The fuselage section used in the house once housed students studying aeronautical systems. Now it welcomes guests who simply love airplanes.
With cabin lights on, original paneling intact, and panoramic desert views, Infinite Skies Retreat is much more than a home. For us avgeeks, it’s a living tribute to aviation history.
From its first flight in 1979 to its retirement and rebirth in 2023, this 727 has lived through almost half a century of aviation history. For any average geek with an extra $2.1 million and a love of the open skies, Infinite Skies Retreat offers the chance to live inside that story, literally.
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