Hugh Hefner (Playboy Enterprises)’s McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
Playboy took its all-black DC-9 straight from the factory in 1969 for $5.5 million, with a white bunny on the tail, a discotheque and an oval bed in Hefner's rear salon. Flight attendants known as 'Jet Bunnies' were trained by Continental. It was sold to a Venezuelan airline in 1975 and ended its days flying passengers for Aeromexico.
Sources: hollywoodreporter.com · twz.com
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- McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 · Charles from Port Chester, New York · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons