A Flight School is Turning a Boeing 727 Into Student Dorms

This isn’t the exact plane, but it’s an identical model.

What was your student dorm like? Mine was a bland, bottom-floor apartment with gray walls, a tiny shared kitchen and a distinct lack of soundproofing. For pupils at a flight school in Alaska, their campus housing is about to get a whole lot more exciting, as the school prepares to convert an old Boeing 727 into student housing.

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According to KTUU News in Alaska, the retired Boeing 727 freighter was initially donated to the University of Alaska by shipping giant FedEx back in 2013, after the plane reached the end of its service life. While housed at the university’s Aviation Technology Center at Merrill Field Airport, the plane was used by students for hands-on training as part of the school’s aircraft maintenance program.

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Now the plane, which took its first flight on February 14th, 1979, is set to begin its next chapter as a combination of student housing and AirBnB accommodations at the Fly8MA Flight Training center in Big Lake, Alaska.