Abandoned at the International Airport in San José, then purchased for $3,000 USD in 2000 by the proprietors of the Avión, the plane was disassembled and because the fuselage was too wide for the Costa Rica's infamous Chiquita Banana railroad bridges, all seven sections had to be sent on an ocean ferry and then hauled up Manuel Antonio hill to its current cliff-side resting-place.
Abandoned at the International Airport in San José, then purchased for $3,000 USD in 2000 by the proprietors of the Avión, the plane was disassembled and because the fuselage was too wide for the Costa Rica's infamous Chiquita Banana railroad bridges, all seven sections had to be sent on an ocean ferry and then hauled up Manuel Antonio hill to its current cliff-side resting-place.