I doubt they bought anything. They didn’t need a 747, they needed to blow one up. One that looks airworthy, not the cheapest crap they could get. I can’t imagi

I doubt they bought anything. They didn’t need a 747, they needed to blow one up. One that looks airworthy, not the cheapest crap they could get. I can’t imagine them fixing up a well scavenged airframe, I imagine they took a nice, but retired frame, blew it up, and sent it back to the yard. Of course the internals would be scrapped ahead of time, but why not airworthy? Tons of these things sitting in the desert. Makes me think of someone using an insured rental car to shoot the big scene of their breakout movie