Most everything has remained untouched except for some light fixtures that were restored. Mar 18, 2020, 6:56 AM PDT Subterra Castle Matthew Fulkerson A couple spent 30 years renovating a nuclear missile silo into an underground castle. Instead of a living room, it has a launch command centre/residence, which is habitable thanks to running water and electricity. The inside looks like it did when it was decommissioned, Schlinger said. c.1960’s Missile Silo Complex For Sale on 11 Acres Abilene KS 420,000 Posted on Jby susansboneyard 2432 Fair Rd, Abilene, KS 67410 420,000 Missile Silo Complex For Sale. At 1200 Silo Lane in the town of York, the Zillow listing declares the 1962 property, A blast from the past and built to last and promises it is constructed to withstand a nuclear attack. Schlinger said he bought the Benson-area facility in 2006, and it has only been opened twice in the past 35 years - once in 2015 and again in 2016 before being buried again. A Cold Warera missile silo base there on 32 acres, converted into an underground home, has come on the market for 1,599,475.
The other silo is owned Meet with local, regional, and national employers by retired nuclear technician Edward Schlinger, who said he grew up with an interest in missiles. We have some explosive news from Eskridge, KS. He says has since used the facility as a playground and test track for his off-road racing trucks. His father bought the facility from the government in the 1980's, Wilson said. Rancher Grant Wilson owns the silo north of Tucson. Most of the sites are now privately owned. When the Titan II missiles were decommissioned in 1984, the government caved in the silos with explosives, filled in the access shafts and put the properties up for sale, the newspaper reported. There is already someone interested in buying both, but the sellers are still accepting offers, Hampton said.Įighteen missile silos were built around Tucson during the nuclear standoff with the former Soviet Union and were occupied by four-person crews ready to launch from control rooms built to survive any atomic threat, officials said. The other site about eight miles east of Benson includes vacant land, a quarter-mile access road, and scenic mountain views overlooking the distant San Pedro River, officials said. This nuclear missile silo nicknamed Ace in the Hole is one of 18 around Southern Arizona and one of three listed by realtor Grant Hampton of Realty Executives. One of the sites about 10 miles north of Tucson comes with a dozen acres of vacant land and is on Arizona 77, officials said. Two more have since entered the market, priced at $495,000 each, agents said. Listing agent Grant Hampton confirmed a decommissioned Titan II missile silo near Oracle Junction sold in December for $420,000 in cash, the Arizona Daily Star reported Friday. (AP)- Two more decommissioned Cold War-era missile silos have entered the Arizona real estate market after one northwest of Tucson sold for more than the asking price.
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