John Travolta's iconic Qantas Boeing 707 has been living a sad fate for nearly 10 years lying abandoned but now there's been an unusual twist
Published on Mar 20, 2026 at 3:43 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Mar 20, 2026 at 3:43 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
After rotting away in an abandoned hangar, this Qantas Boeing 707, once owned by John Travolta, is about to be brought back to life.
Sort of.
The Boeing 707-138B model – tail number N707JT – was built back in the 1960s and will likely never fly again.
But the next chapter of this plane’s life will be a lot more glamorous than the last one.
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How John Travolta got his Boeing 707
John Travolta flies his own planes.
He has several licenses, and he owns an impressive fleet of aircraft.
Most of his planes are what you’d call business jets, but some are actual airliners converted for private use.
That’s the case with this Qantas Boeing 707-138B.
It served the Australian airline Qantas for years, and still held onto the airline’s livery even after it was retired.
Travolta became the owner of the plane, and later, as part of a deal with Qantas, he actually flew it for years while the airline was covering maintenance costs.
Things began to go wrong in 2017, when the plane was grounded for essential work.
But the essential maintenance work was never carried out, and the aircraft is now pretty much unusable.
All is not lost, though, because there’s light at the end of the tunnel for the plane.
The plane is now on its way to Australia
A while back, Travolta announced he would donate this Boeing 707 to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) Museum in Australia.
Back in April of 2025, HARS Museum posted on Facebook to say N707JT ‘is being carefully disassembled to be shipped to HARS at Albion Park’.
Around a year later, we have an update with both good news and bad news.
The good news is that the plane has been successfully disassembled and it is – as we speak – on its way to Australia.
It is basically heading home – figuratively speaking – since Qantas is Australia’s flag carrier.
The bad news is it’ll take a long time to get there, and even longer to rebuild.
So it’ll be years before anybody can actually check out the airplane at the museum.
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