Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
As you can probably imagine, aircraft are incredibly expensive to produce, maintain and fly. Which is what makes it all the stranger that someone should just abandon one! Even so, it does happen. Quite a lot! Here are 10 Most Stunning Abandoned Airplanes!
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1. Bristol Freighter Type 170
This aircraft was designed to carry cargo for WWII, but WWII was finished before the plane got built so it used for commercial flights instead. In the 12 years it was in production, 214 planes were made, and of these, 68 had accidents, so it's not surprising that today only 13 aircraft remain intact. One of these remaining aircraft lies abandoned on Beaverlodge lake in Canada. In 1956, the plane had landed on the frozen lake and was braking when the left main gear broke through the ice, this caused the left wing to hit the ice and bend. The plane was later deemed irreparable, dragged to the edge of the lake, and abandoned.
2. Lockheed Jetstar
Elvis Presley owned 3 jets, 1 was a Convair 880 called "Hound Dog II", the second was a Lockheed Jetstar called "Lisa Marie", both planes can be found on display in the Graceland Museum. His third plane was also a Lockheed Jetstar that Elvis bought in 1976 and then sold in 1977.
3. Belgium Hangar
A Belgium man called Laurent Burnier discovered an abandoned hangar hidden in the countryside. Inside were 5 damaged airplanes, 4 Stampe SV.4 fuselages, dozens of jet engines all lined up in neat rows, and around 30 to 40 wings perfectly stored.
4. Swamped B17
Captain Frederick Eaton jr was flying this Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress during a raid on Japanese ships over Papua New Guinea on February 23, 1942, when he was intercepted by the Japanese. During the fight, he ran out of fuel and was forced to make an emergency landing in a swamp, the crew survived but the plane wasn't salvaged because the war was still being fought.
5. Russian Buran space shuttle.
The "Buran" was Soviet Russia's answer to NASA's Orbiter space shuttle and it completed its first unmanned flight in 1988. It was programmed to have a second, longer, unmanned flight by 1993 but the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a lack of funding, and the project was abandoned. The Buran and two additional incomplete orbiters were put into a hangar for storage.
6. Carlos Lehder's C-46
Just off-shore of the Normans cay island is a semi-submerged Curtis C-46. In the late 1970s, the Island of Norman's cay was used by the Medellin Cartel for drug smuggling.
7. Bartini Beriev VVA-14
Soviet Russia wanted to develop an aircraft that could take out US Polaris missile submarines.
8. 737 airliner Mumbai
A decommissioned Boeing 737 was being dismantled and transported through the Indian city of Mumbai, at night.
9. MiG in Iraq.
When allied forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they didn't find the weapons they were looking for, they did, however, find something rather strange at Al-Taqaddum Air Base.
In Hungary, in a farmer's field are over 70 MiG-21 aircraft that still belong to the Hungarian military.
As you can probably imagine, aircraft are incredibly expensive to produce, maintain and fly. Which is what makes it all the stranger that someone should just abandon one! Even so, it does happen. Quite a lot! Here are 10 Most Stunning Abandoned Airplanes!
📍 RECOMMENDED PLACES TO VISIT
04:14 - The Bahamas: go.stay22.com/QkhB_pcUnm
06:01 - Moscow, Russia: go.stay22.com/tg4Ohiuuux
06:17 - Mumbai, India: go.stay22.com/jpY7j88bMG
07:49 - Hungary: go.stay22.com/r8Qq17sD4K
1. Bristol Freighter Type 170
This aircraft was designed to carry cargo for WWII, but WWII was finished before the plane got built so it used for commercial flights instead. In the 12 years it was in production, 214 planes were made, and of these, 68 had accidents, so it's not surprising that today only 13 aircraft remain intact. One of these remaining aircraft lies abandoned on Beaverlodge lake in Canada. In 1956, the plane had landed on the frozen lake and was braking when the left main gear broke through the ice, this caused the left wing to hit the ice and bend. The plane was later deemed irreparable, dragged to the edge of the lake, and abandoned.
2. Lockheed Jetstar
Elvis Presley owned 3 jets, 1 was a Convair 880 called "Hound Dog II", the second was a Lockheed Jetstar called "Lisa Marie", both planes can be found on display in the Graceland Museum. His third plane was also a Lockheed Jetstar that Elvis bought in 1976 and then sold in 1977.
3. Belgium Hangar
A Belgium man called Laurent Burnier discovered an abandoned hangar hidden in the countryside. Inside were 5 damaged airplanes, 4 Stampe SV.4 fuselages, dozens of jet engines all lined up in neat rows, and around 30 to 40 wings perfectly stored.
4. Swamped B17
Captain Frederick Eaton jr was flying this Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress during a raid on Japanese ships over Papua New Guinea on February 23, 1942, when he was intercepted by the Japanese. During the fight, he ran out of fuel and was forced to make an emergency landing in a swamp, the crew survived but the plane wasn't salvaged because the war was still being fought.
5. Russian Buran space shuttle.
The "Buran" was Soviet Russia's answer to NASA's Orbiter space shuttle and it completed its first unmanned flight in 1988. It was programmed to have a second, longer, unmanned flight by 1993 but the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a lack of funding, and the project was abandoned. The Buran and two additional incomplete orbiters were put into a hangar for storage.
6. Carlos Lehder's C-46
Just off-shore of the Normans cay island is a semi-submerged Curtis C-46. In the late 1970s, the Island of Norman's cay was used by the Medellin Cartel for drug smuggling.
7. Bartini Beriev VVA-14
Soviet Russia wanted to develop an aircraft that could take out US Polaris missile submarines.
8. 737 airliner Mumbai
A decommissioned Boeing 737 was being dismantled and transported through the Indian city of Mumbai, at night.
9. MiG in Iraq.
When allied forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they didn't find the weapons they were looking for, they did, however, find something rather strange at Al-Taqaddum Air Base.
In Hungary, in a farmer's field are over 70 MiG-21 aircraft that still belong to the Hungarian military.
