Man turns helicopter into a caravan for ultimate camping experience

Quirky campsite owner Tim Johnson has bought an old Westland Search and Rescue helicopter to turn it into a caravan, complete with beds and seats.

Visitors to the Blackberry Wood campsite, near Ditchling in East Sussex, will get their camping holidays off to a flying start if they spend their break in this contraption.

Father-of-three Johnson bought the former Royal Navy copter for £5,000 and has already stripped it down to make way for caravan furniture.

Happy campers can hire it for about £60 a night, plus a charge of £5 and £9 per person.

It will be surrounded by a mock army camp, complete with sandbags and an army shelter. Such a unique camping feature is bound to take off.

Johnson said: 'I found out about this place in Suffolk where all these characters have whole aircraft sitting in their lawn.

'Originally I was looking for a private jet but they were very squishy inside and I didn’t think it would be a very nice experience to stay in there. So the helicopter was what popped up.

'Everyone is queuing up to get in there. There are lots of kids on the site pleading with us to let them go in.

'It will be even more impressive when we have finished it.'

Those who don't fancy bedding down in that particular vehicle can opt to stay in a double decker bus, or a tiny ’60s Dutch ‘bubble’ caravan.


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