Elvis Presley’s Jet Found Parked in the Desert

Flew on this plane several times when it was owned by Morton Norwich. No purple interior at the time. Flew into a dirt strip at a salt operation in the Brazilian jungle as well as well as another plant on Grand Inagua in the Bahamas. Plane also flew into East Hampton Airport on Long Island. It was one of the first jets to fly into EH (1973-74) and the town lengthened the runway so it could take off with a full load of fuel and fly to Chicago without stopping at Suffolk Airforce base. In the video, you indicate that Morton sold it to EP in 1976. Morton must have purchased another JetStar as they had one flying in 1981.

Unbelievable how good condition the passenger cabin is compared to the cockpit.

I know this comment is a bit late and I hope whoever made and edited this video is still reading comments. I just want to say how really great this whole video is - it's a breath of fresh air (regarding editing) compared to so many other horrible videos out there that are so hyped up and over-edited that they are actually stressful to watch. This video shined for me, not just for the extremely interesting content, but it was so natural and relaxing to watch. No silly music added in to distract the viewer, no hard cut editing-out of the natural pauses between sentences when speaking and no stupid video effects, zooms and cuts. All smooth and natural. Maybe you didn't know it would turn out so natural but that's how it ended up. I was right there with you listening to the tour guide - the only thing missing were the musty smells of 1970s fabrics, velour and wood. Thank you.

I adore Elvis. This plane needs love.

You can smell the 70's inside this time capsule

Would love to see someone restore this. Awesome piece of history.

Thanks for the tour; I'm sure many Elvis fans will enjoy this video! Hopefully it will be bought and restored!

The interior is in remarkably good shape.

For showing this video of the jet......."Thank-You! Thank-You very Much!"

It's incredible how clean the interior is! I'm expecting to see the king walk in at any moment with how untouched it is!

I worked on Jetstars in 1979 and 1980 when I was stationed at Ramstien AB Germany. We had a small fleet of executive jets for flying around high ranking individuals and dignitaries. We called our operation Teeny Weeny Airlines.

This should be restored, and put into a museum! This is apart of America’s history!!

With how crazy some Elvis fans can get, I'm flat out surprised his jet, of all things, hasn't been put on an immortal pedestal already!

This plane should be preserved. It is so special.

I bumped into an old dude at graceland who had an airline pilot uniform on, and being the cheeky git i am, i asked if he flew elvis, he said i did, buy me a coffee and ill tell you about it, what a great 45mins that was, im from the uk so i chat to anyone, this chat was gold

Looks like a job for Rebuild Rescue. Always loved the Lockheed Jetstar. What a cool plane. My father piloted one of these for Ethyl Corp out of Richmond VA back in the early to mid 60s.

An absolutely remarkable time capsule. Thank you for sharing this piece of history!

This was one of Lockheed's few ventures into the civilian realm, and so they just "naturally" made everything mil-style and to milspec. If you surmised this resulted in a craft with an excellent safety record, you would be correct. (Same with the L-1011...) e.g. even though The JetStar was never intended to be supersonic, the Engineers thought "in a dive, you never know..." so notice there is no hinged "elevator" control surface, but rather the entire horizontal "stabilator" moves as one piece, as seen on their F-104 and other military jets. This eliminates deadly "flutter" and thus improves control at trans-sonic speeds. Elvis knew, and now you do too! :yougotthis:🤔 sideburns

Thanks for sharing sir watching from Canada 🇨🇦 orig from Bohol Philippines 🇵🇭

I've been waiting for years to see what's inside that bird. I used to work there at the airport and see it every morning curious on what it looked inside.