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Piper Airplane currently ranks #12 out of the top most owned sets in Exclusive LEGO Inside Tour Exclusive.
About Exclusive LEGO Inside Tour Exclusive
The LEGO Inside Tour in Billund, Denmark is an annual exclusive event that is held a few times a year to a very limited number of attendees through a raffle type sign-up process. Lucky attendees of this 2-5 day experience learn how LEGO bricks are produced, meet the designers and take a tour through the LEGO Group’s unique history in Ole Kirk's original house featuring an extraordinary exhibition of LEGO sets and models that date back to 1934. At the end of the tour, each participant receives a LEGO set exclusively produced for the LEGO Inside Tour in cooperation with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen to take home. These sets are exclusive to the tour only and maintain a considerable value on the secondary markets.
LEGO Inside Tour Exclusive currently consists of 17 sets that as of now has run from 2005 to 2025. As of today,
Ole Kirk's House is the most valuable LEGO Inside Tour Exclusive set with an estimated new/factory sealed value of $13,037.
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In 1962 the LEGO® Group bought its first airplane, a Piper Aztec OY-FAV.
The company had expanded a lot abroad in recent years and the owner Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (GKC) decided that the LEGO Group had to have an airplane and airfield located in Billund to reduce employees’ travel time back and forth from the foreign sales companies.
The year before, the LEGO Group had bought a share of a Piper Apache propeller plane OY-AIU, the other half was owned by South Jutland airline company, but very quickly GKC realized that the LEGO Group needed their own plane.
In the summer of 1962 the first LEGO pilots, 33-year-old Hans Erik Christensen and his cousin 26-year-old Hans Jørgen Christensen, traveled to the United States to buy the Piper Aztec.
Along with them they had a check of DKK 453,000.
After buying the airplane, the pilots took off from the aircraft factory in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and flew via Boston to Gander in Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic to Shannon...
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