Just a few months ago, the two 60-year-old Boeings 707 were at Hamburg Airport and Berlin Airport.
Now the icons of aviation have been completely dismantled into their individual parts.
The best of these are to be auctioned in small pieces by the industrial auction house Dechow from Friday until October 24th.
"This is also a prestige object for us, because it has certainly not yet happened that two structurally identical aircraft with historical significance were dismantled in this short time and then also auctioned," said auction project manager Jens-Peter Franz of the German press Agency in Hamburg.
From the entire cockpit to the pilot's seats and the engines to the window elements, the wing tip and original tool sets from the 1960s - aviation enthusiasts and collectors can bid on around 1000 individual lots.
The proceeds go to the owners of the two aircraft - Hamburg Airport and the Berlin Museum of Technology.
Last flight as "Air Force One" in a movie
The Boeing 707 is one of Lufthansa's oldest jet aircraft.
Since 1960, the Hamburg Boeing, built in Seattle, had been in service with Lufthansa for 15 years.
In 1976 she started one last time for a film.
Painted as the US presidential plane "Air Force One", it flew to Munich and back.
After years of use as a training aircraft for budding aircraft technicians, the 46-meter-long Boeing was parked as a historic aircraft on the edge of Hamburg Airport in 1999 and served as a film set.
Ultimately, however, the receipt of the airport, which was hit by Corona, became too expensive.
Because of the high transport and renovation costs - Franz spoke of at least one million euros in the summer - no museum wanted to take over the machine.
That's why airplane fans from all over the world can now bid for parts of the two machines. Project manager Franz said the starting prices were in some cases only five euros so that many people could bid. The auction house offers the auction online - and the highest bidder actually wins. That means: It is not the time that decides, but the actual last bid. Franz does not assume that the auction house will end up sitting on engines or windows. "In our experience, everything actually goes out."