Elvis Presley’s two personal jets set to fetch £10m at auction

Elvis Presley’s two personal jets, one complete with gilded wash basin and plush sleeping quarters, will go under the hammer in a sealed-bid auction for a piece of mile-high rock and roll memorabilia, Julien’s Auctions said on Friday. Jets “Lisa Marie” and “Hound Dog II” that the late King of Rock and Roll designed himself will be offered together to bidders and are expected to fetch between £7-10m, the Beverly Hills, California, auction house said. They are no longer airworthy, but have been on view for visitors at Graceland - Presley’s Memphis, Tennessee estate - for the past three decades.

They’re both museum pieces and I’m looking for serious offers.

The planes’ owner K.G.Coker

Presley bought the Convair 880 jet from Delta Air Lines in 1975, two years before his death at age of 42, for £160,000. He named it “Lisa Marie” after his daughter. He spent more than £200,000 refurbishing the jet with a penthouse bedroom, executive conference room, bar and videotape system linked to four TVs. He had the plane painted red, white and blue with his motto “TCB” - “Takin’ Care of Business” - on the tail. He purchased the eight-to-10 passenger “Hound Dog II,” a Lockheed Jetstar, also in 1975 for about £600,000 while waiting on the refurbishment of the “Lisa Marie.” The four-engine 28-passenger Convair could fly Presley, who preferred to travel at night, up to 3,000 miles.

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