After serving as a passenger plane, then a top dressing plane (crop duster, for the American audience), it was decommissioned in 1984 and became a promotional feature in the parking lot of Taupō's Aeroplane Car Company, a car dealership.
Woman discovers 'the world’s coolest McDonald’s' onboard a plane A woman travelling the globe claims to have found the 'world's coolest' McDonald's.
A website for visitors to Taupo named Love Taupo explains that the branch has "made it on the '10 coolest McDonald's around the world' list".
Karina Diaz, from Auckland, discovered a branch of the fast food chain in a decommissioned DC-3 plane when she was visiting Taupo, a town in the North Island, New Zealand.
The keen traveller posted the video on the social media platform TikTok, where she shows the exterior of the plane before taking the viewers inside the aircraft with her.
