430 km Round Trip to an Abandoned Boeing 747 in a Field | Bangkok to Pranburi on a Honda CB500F

A full-day motorbike ride from Bangkok to Pranburi to find Thailand's abandoned Boeing 747 — Thai Airways HS-TGP "Thepprasit", a 747-400 delivered in 1994, retired in 2020, trucked down in pieces and re-bolted in a field near Pak Nam Pran. I climb in through the nose-gear bay, walk the wing, check out the stripped cargo hold and the (mostly fake) cockpit, then ride home through two rainstorms. Bike: hired Honda CB500F · Route: Rama II Rd (Rte 35) → Samut Sakhon → Rte 4 Phetchaburi → Cha-am → Hua Hin bypass (Rte 37) → Pranburi · ~215 km each way 📍 The 747: https://maps.google.com/?q=12.390612,... Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:28 Leaving Bangkok 1:45 Shell fuel stop 1:57 Back on the road 2:27 Roadside snack 3:39 McDonald's, Cha-am 3:59 Hua Hin → Pranburi 5:08 Arrival – the 747 6:56 Climbing in through the nose gear 8:21 Out on the wing 9:37 Doors & the cockpit 12:34 Getting down, the dogs & landing gear 16:05 Heading home – rain stop 1 (Café Amazon) 16:47 Rain stop 2 – roadside shelter 17:20 The run home 18:15 Back in Bangkok About the plane • Boeing 747-4D7, MSN 26610, delivered to Thai Airways 22 Nov 1994 • 4 × GE CF6-80C2 · 375 seats · wore Thai's 50th-anniversary retro livery • Grounded in 2020 when COVID ended Thai's 747 era; moved here in sections in 2023 for a café project that never happened Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...) "Five Armies", "Exit the Premises", "Raving Energy", "Lightless Dawn", "The Descent", "Fluffing a Duck", "Hiding Your Reality", "Inspired", "Wallpaper" Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors #Thailand #Boeing747 #MotorbikeThailand #HondaCB500F #Pranburi #AbandonedPlane #MotoVlog #ThailandTravel #HuaHin #Bangkok