A man from El Paso, Texas, is on a mission to move and fully refurbish a derelict 59-year-old Boeing 727 that he and his brother bought for $10,000. The Boeing aircraft had been sitting unused in a hangar at the El Paso airport for nearly 20 years. Before that, according to El Paso Matters, U.S. But none of those came close in terms of scale or overall cost of what the plane project would require. The Boeing 727 sat in an El Paso, Texas airport hangar for nearly two decades.