A Boeing 727 cargo jet embarked on a final journey the night of April 6 — this time, not in the air or even rolling down a runway, but instead carefully hauled from Anchorage’s Merrill Field airport down the asphalt of the Glenn Highway to Big Lake in Alaska.
The plane attracted crowds along several parts of the highway as it made the 55-mile trip in just over seven hours, cruising at a top speed of about 20 mph, according to Jon Kotwicki, the Big Lake man with plans to convert the aircraft into housing. An online tracker let people know where it was so they could watch from overpasses.
