Make-up artist Amber Scott is hoping her new business really takes off.
The 25-year-old has an old aeroplane into a salon.The Air Atlantique G-Conv plane has been lying around her parents’ garden centre in Carluke, Lanarkshire, for 10 years after their plan to use it as an upmarket B&B failed to get off the ground.
Amber, who has travelled to New York and LA to learn her trade, said she can’t wait to welcome her first clients on board.She said: “It’s definitely unusual. I don’t know of anyone who gets given a plane. I’m very lucky.”Andrew and Tricia Scott bought the 60-year-old aircraft a decade ago for £25,000 after spotting it at Coventry Airport.
It cost £20,000 to transport it to Scotland by road and the couple planned to spend £100,000 converting it into a £400-a-night B&B.
Some of the original features of the cockpit have been retained in the refitted plane, which has a 92ft wingspan.Amber, who trained at Clydebank College, said: “The plane was sitting empty and I was joking with my parents saying it would make a great salon if you put a H in front of Air Atlantique. Then we came up with the idea of using it as my studio.
