While it's possible the Aero Club could repossess the giant, eight-engine wooden flying boat, its fate would be in question. It took a massive (and expensive) effort to dismantle and move the airplane from Long Beach, California, to Oregon in 1993. The climate-controlled building housing the airplane was essentially constructed around it. Aero Club attorney Robert Lyon said, "To call it a white elephant would be an understatement. But concern has arisen of what we are going to do if they default on the note and we have to take the boat back. I wonder if they have enough money to take it apart and get it out of the building."