Steve VarsanoFounder at The Jet Business

What's the biggest private jet you can buy?

Name: What's the biggest private jet you can buy?
Uploaded: 2024-01-31T21:48:01+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Steve Varsano
Description: The Airbus A380 can be converted to private use, but it costs $250-300 million and takes 2-3 years. The real challenge isn't the furniture. It's managing…

31 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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The Airbus A380 can be converted to private use, but it costs $250-300 million and takes 2-3 years. The real challenge isn't the furniture. It's managing temperature swings from 75°F on the ground to -50°C at altitude while keeping the structure intact.

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Steve, what is the biggest private jet I can buy? Well, the biggest private jets, biggest corporate jets, and the biggest commercial jets really weren't made for VIP configurations. Really? Yeah, let me show you some. So let's start with the A380. It really wasn't made for a corporate configuration, but it can be done. It's very expensive, and it'll take probably 2 to 3 years to actually convert the interior to a corporate configuration. Wow. How much do you reckon that will be? Just to do the interior, probably $250 to $300 million. Damn. And why would it take so long? Listen, you're taking a can that's going from the sea level to 40,000 feet. It's going from 100 degrees or 75 degrees Fahrenheit on the ground to -50 degrees centigrade up in the altitude. The airplane is expanding and contracting. It's got to be the same temperature inside. It can't crush with the pressure changes. It's a very complicated technological explanation, but it's not just simple put the furniture in the house and you go fly. That sounds like quite a challenge.