The sky’s NOT the limit: Vintage plane parts destined for the scrap heap are reborn as furniture

Many of the scrap parts require more than 100 hours of cutting, grounding, buffing and polishing to be transformed

Their prices range from from £65 for a desk watch to £39,000 for a one-of-a-kind conference table made from a wing

Vintage plane parts destined for the scrap heap have been given a new lease of life and being transformed into beds chairs and desks



Californian company Motoart spends hours transforming wings, doors and engine cowls into stylish furniture.



Many of the parts require more than 100 hours of cutting, grounding, buffing and polishing before they are ready to buy.



Powerful desk: The B-727 Cowling Airplane Valet Desk - this once covered the 727's engines which offered 14,000 pounds of thrust

Hot seat: The B-52 Bomber Ejection Chair, that comes with the original ejection pin with the remove before flight warning tag

Time for bed: The DC-10 Cowling Bed was formerly a 380 passenger McDonnell Douglas DC-10 plane and is now a modern 84" round bed measuring 105" in diameter where it features an illumination with LED's on the base and port holes

The company's bomber seats even come with the original ejector pin and 'remove before flight' warning tag.

Their prices range from from £65 for a desk watch to £39,000 for a one-of-a-kind conference table, made from a wing.

Dave Hall, joint owner of Motoart, based next to Los Angeles International Airport, said:



'The mile high beds are very popular with men - and they are almost always bachelors.



'The bed frames are made from the tail fins of a DC-9 aircraft.

Centre of attention: A C-119 Airplane desk made from the plane's rudder

Table top inspraiton: The B-52 Spinner Table (left) is an art deco design fabricated from an aerodynamic nose assembly gear box cover that protruded from each of the eight Pratt & Whitney J-57 jet engines, while the Douglas Pedal Table (right) is from the very rare Douglas C-133 aircraft

Bar: The PW-747 Cowling Bar made from authentic cowling that housed a Pratt & Whitney jet engine which powered a Boeing 747

Famous client list: Motoart have produced items for A-list celebrities, royalty in the Middle East, and big business clients including Microsoft and Boeing

'They cost between £10,000 and £20,000 but all our prices reflect the rarity of the aeroplane model.



'We only have 12 of the ejector seats left, so they are priced at £8,000 each.'



Motoart have produced items for A-list celebrities, royalty in the Middle East, and big business clients including Microsoft and Boeing.



Mr Hall said: 'A business executive who buys one of our desks certainly has a conversation starter when someone walks into their office.

'They are also being environmentally smart by owning one of our pieces.'



Labour of love: Dave Hall, owner of Motoart pictured at work in Los Angeles, California. 'The mile high beds are very popular with men - and they are almost always bachelors,' he said

The sky's not the limit: Employees working in the 20,000 square foot Motoart factory in Los Angeles Mr Hall 45, set up Motoart in 2001 with Donovan Fell, 64.

The business now employs 17 people and turns over around £26 million a year.

They first got the idea of transforming aircraft parts after selling a set of formerly scrap propellors as art, in the late 1990s.

Office fun: The Fuselage desk - the company says it 'is also available as a set of four connected to form cubicles for extra privacy and an efficient use of office space'

Piece of history: The F-4 Ejection Seat , right, from the authentic F-4 bucket seat, has been left in original condition to reflect the Vietnam era plane

Trolley dolly: The Galley Cart Credenza is fitted with original brakes where the credenza can be fixed in a stationary position or be rolled and is completed with two diamond plated airline beverage carts

Mr Hall said 'Donovan had his doubts at first, but we cleaned the propellors up and sold them for £6,500 a piece - so we knew we were on to a winner.



'The scrap parts make up ancient aircraft history. The engineering that went into them is incredible and we only enhance that.



'Why wouldn't you want to own a piece of history that looks this good?'



Flying high: Named the Mile High Bed, this piece is fabricated from two DC-9 rear stabilizers and a C-130 inner flap - the bed is accented by 1/2" Plexiglas and illuminated with internal LED lighting

Inspiration: The pair got the idea of transforming aircraft parts after selling a set of formerly scrap propellors as art, in the late 1990s



