I visited this restaurant on my way home from this year’s An-2 meeting. It is called Jet Rest Niki Lauda and is situated on the border between the Czech Republic and Austria. I had seen a photo on airliners.net and therefore I knew that it was there.

It was some kind of a fun fair to arrive there with everything possible to get in shops and fairs for children. I had a meal in the restaurant. It is an exciting initiative to build an old government aircraft into a restaurant. The aircraft is an Il-62 and was used by the Czech-Slovak government, but since then the countries have been divided into two countries. The first photo can be made into an pdf-file by clicking on it. Then you can read about the aircraft.

The restaurant had many visitors, and the food was allright. The prices were fair. So it can be recommended – also because it is funny to have eaten in a place like this. The border crossing is called Znojmo-Kleinhaugsdorf. It is situated in no man’s land between the two countries, and you cannot avoid seeing it, if you cross this border.

Poul-Jørgen

This poster was used as a place mat in the restaurant, and I naturally brought one with me to Denmark. It would be thrown out anyway. By clicking on the poster it can be changed into an pdf-file and can therefore be enlarged, like you want. Then you can read the text. If you cannot read pdf-files, Adobe Reader can be downloaded here for free.

It was a very different sight you saw when you came into the parking lot, that was occupied very much. Generally it was very much some kind of a market place with everything possible in border shops and fairylands for children. The restaurant here had an outdoor terrace on its right wing and tables with four aircraft chairs at every table.

As the decoration next to the aircraft shows it was some kind of a fun fair.

The rear end with the four engines, as you see here, are not very original, I must say.

The overall theme in the painting of the aircraft is nude women.

Perhaps except the rudder.

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