“When you get into the larger aircraft it becomes like a hotel, with dozens of staff supporting the plane based in a galley area down below. You have very comprehensive cooking facilities, and on larger aircraft we have looked at theatres, with spiral staircases and a Steinway grand piano. The limitations for what you can put inside a plane are pretty much the limits of physics, and even money cannot always overcome that. Even so, people are still always trying to push [the limits]. ”
Completion and Refurbishment Centers
Despite the recent public flogging of owners of private jets for allegedly engaging in wretched excess, we suspect that cabin completion and refurbishment centers have yet to meet an owner who wants a cabin with Naugahyde seats, paper plates and plastic champagne glasses. In fact, the cost of outfitting or refurbishing the cabin remains second only to the purchase price on the list of expenses associated with buying a new or used business jet.
In mid-2008, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Abdul Aziz Al Saud, chairman of Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Company, ordered the first A380 to be outfitted as a personal transport. The base price of an A380, before the cabin completion, is about $325 million and those familiar with the business say the cost of the interior will be "significant," which in this case means well into nine figures.
As the prince could undoubtedly attest, you can get pretty much anything you want for your cabin-assuming, of course, that the aviation authorities will approve it and you're willing to pay for it.
The following is a list of some leading manufacturer and independent completion and refurbishment centers, as well as some exterior-paint shops.
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