The true story of how a Lockheed L-1329 went from ferrying members of a crime syndicate around North Africa to its eventual seizure could have made a probing Netflix miniseries about international drug smuggling.
Instead, Wales-based proprietor Jacob McCarthy, 28, acquired the ‘70s-era luxury private jet—which he claims had been owned by cartels—to be the swanky and dangerous cohort for his hotel park of aircraft-themed suites.