This took a while to actually find this DC-3... but I found it.

After reading a couple of web articles about a DC-3 that had been converted to a "space shuttle" back in the early 90's I found that it had fallen into disrepair and was eventually purchased by a couple in California, who refurbished it and now it's a mobile kitchen... used at all kinds of airshows and such...

Here's a quote from www.douglasdc3.com

Quote:

So unique is the plane (and the quizzical looks it inspires) that the Petersens decided to create a web site at www.spaceshutlecafe.com (now under construction) where visitors will be able to see the Space Shuttle Caf for themselves. The web site will detail the amazing history of this plane starting from its days as an Army Transport. Rumor has it that the DC-3 was hijacked once to Cuba. It later became an American cultural oddity in the former Soviet Union and Europe where it was displayed for several years during the 1980s, and is being reincarnated as a full service mobile food kitchen.

The wings on the plane are long gone, having been removed by a previous owner who shortened the fuselage and hoisted the DC-3 onto the massive bus frame. The Space Shuttle Caf measures 40 feet long, 8 feet wide and 11 feet high and is entered at the rear. Customers come aboard the DC-3, ascending a flight of stairs that lead to the counter. After placing their order, the customer descends another flight of stairs and exits to wait alongside the caf, where the food is handed out through a side window near the front.




After finding out who did the conversion and researching his name and the significant number of addresses for this name... I finally found a street address in Oxnard, CA... I put that address into GE and away we went...

Low and Behold, sitting behind his house was the Space Shuttle Cafe... where I put the placemark.

Here's another good article: airportjournals.com



They have their own website here - http://www.spaceshuttlecafe.com

Before it was a Space Shuttle - it was converted to Camper by Smokey Roland -



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