World's last Blackburn Beverley aircraft saved by plan to create amazing holiday let

THE businessman who has saved the world’s last Blackburn Beverley aircraft from the scrapheap has revealed plans to turn it into a unique Airbnb let – with a jacuzzi in the nose cone.

Pilot Martyn Wiseman, who has an airfield near Selby, Birchwood Lodge, bought the giant aircraft at auction earlier this month. having had his eye on it for a year.

Mr Wiseman has already converted an eight-seater Hawker executive plane, which was once at the beck and call of the Russian jet set, into a luxury crash pad. It featured on George Clarke’s Channel 4 show Amazing Spaces.

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But those plans are dwarfed by his vision for the transport plane, which will take six months to dismantle – the engines weigh two tonnes each – and then move by c