The JoAnn Ussery “plane home”
I can safely say that this “style” of home isn’t for everyone.
Could you imagine living in JoAnn Ussery’s plane home?
Her brother-in-law, an air-traffic controller at Memphis Airport, invited JoAnn to the plane moratorium the very next day where she fell in love with a 1968 Commercial Airlines Boeing 727. The plane didn’t look like much when she found it, she says, “but I knew I could make it a home.” Of course, she couldn’t just drive a 127-ft plane off the lot. After several months of clearing red tape, a moving company transported the plane the 70 miles to her property on Whittington Lake.
When an ice-laden tree flattened her home in 1994, JoAnn Ussery began her search for new digs. Needless to say it never occurred to her that living in a grounded plane might be an option.
Another benefit: JoAnn’s unusual home confounded the taxman. “The first year I paid $1 in taxes,” she said. “They didn’t know what to charge for living in a plane.” If her curious choice of abode stunned municipal officials, it certainly caught the attention of a wider audience. “I’ve been on 28 TV shows in five countries,” she says, a highlight being her appearance on the Late Show on CBS. “(Host David) Letterman was the funniest person I ever met.”
Joseph Hollak is a California Realtor. You can contact Joseph 24/7 with California real estate questions.
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physical therapist / 27 Sep 2010 / 11:00 AM