We undertake work for private and commercial clients. We’d love to discuss your project idea and can convert items to your specification. Therefore in this section you’ll find items we haven’t yet got to. We convert and restore every item we can but occasionally have to offer our components for sale to generate space. And we also specialise in modern era militaria but do have the odd antique gunsight for example on offer. We focus on British military goods but do occasionally find foreign military pieces of interest. A Boeing 747-8 Business Jet (BBJ), the most luxurious ‘Queens of the Skies’ aircraft, will be dismantled at the Pinal Airpark boneyard in Marana, in the United States on December 19, 2022. So please get in touch if you’d like to come and see all our stock and discuss a project.Ī range of military parts sourced from the MOD ranging from a small cog right up to missile bases, bombs and 6m long fuel tanks. Under certain circumstances, we also offer a rental service for film companies, sets, props and one off events. As you’ll see we also sell the components ready for conversion. We hope that showing our raw materials will help inspire project and furniture ideas you’ll want to discuss. We have a range of beautiful seats, tables and mirrors. Alongside rusty parts we haven’t yet had time to convert, you’ll also find our finished projects. You can then ask us to convert these items for you or we’ll happily help you do it. Therefore in this category you will find parts and components. This aim inevitably means we buy a lot of stock that is very time consuming and costly to convert into finished furniture. Our aim at GB Salvage is to create stunning industrial furniture made with parts from planes, boats, subs and heavy industry. Even Taylor Swift was chopping up a plane in her latest music video. A few years ago a piece of aircraft fuselage wall art was really only for a board room or reception area, now it’s all the fashion at home. These days it’s all about unique and daring ideas and oversized industrial furniture. There’s almost no limit to the imagination when it comes to making use of parts of old planes. It is arguably the most iconic and best-loved aircraft ever flown. (Photo by David Gray/Getty Images) Few aircraft turn heads like the Boeing 747 does. The final 747-400 in the fleet will depart Sydney 22 July 2020 as flight QF7474. So here you’ll find components and muddy puddle finds right up to stunning finished furniture. Qantas is farewelling the Boeing 747 jumbo jet from its fleet of aircraft. Having only limited space and time we have to part with some great pieces. We find and buy aeroplane parts with the full intention of turning them into amazing pieces of furniture and lighting. You’ll find a diverse range of parts we’ve sourced from retired planes all across the UK and Europe. Sign up for our free newsletters for prior notification of which airframes are coming.GB Salvage offer a wide range of plane parts both to be converted and already converted and ready for use. Measuring approximately 16 x 11” (400 x 280mm), the windows can be hung from the clock mechanism, or surface mounted on a plate stand.Ĭlocks are produced in batches from these iconic aeroplanes as they’re scrapped. Expect some scratches, chips and crazing, along with occasional remnants of the Clearvue coating applied to them to extend their life. Left clear with black text, or finished in ‘Landor’ blue with white acrylic applied to the etching, each pane is unique and still bears the hallmarks of its operational life. They were removed immediately prior to the aircraft’s scrapping.Ĭleaned and lightly polished, they are laser-etched with the airframe details and fitted with a single AA battery-powered, silent sweep quartz clock. They are the rear section of the outer pane, which is fitted directly to the fuselage, rather than inside the aircraft cabin. These clocks are made from the genuine acrylic window panes from former British Airways, Boeing 747-436s.
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