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Secretive VIPs splash cash on customised jets at air show

By Standard Digital | 14yrs ago

By Kyle Peterson

The enormous $300 million (Sh27 billion) Boeing Co 747-8 Intercontinental parked at this week’s Paris Air Show is earmarked for an anonymous VIP customer who apparently needs one of the world’s biggest airplanes.

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