As Led Zeppelin relaxed at home in the UK for a weeks weeks in June 1973, their tour manager Richard Cole was ordered to scour the US looking for a larger plane for the next leg of their tour.

Eventually, Cole was handed a brochure for a newly refitted plane called The Starship. As part of LedZepNews’ research into the history of the plane, we obtained a copy of what we believe is the exact same brochure Cole reviewed in June 1973 before agreeing a deal to rent the plane.

“I contacted Lou Weinstock of Toby Roberts Tours, who used to arrange for planes for Elvis. Lou passed on a brochure to me about a Boeing jet called the Starship,” Cole wrote in his 1992 book “Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored”,book.

The brochure, produced by the plane’s then-owned Contemporary Entertainment Services, appears to be largely derived from illustrations of the plane’s interior that were perhaps produced prior to the work being carried out.

This brochure was also quoted from in a New Yorker article dated April 15, 1974 about Deep Purple’s hiring of the plane.

You can read the full brochure below:

Boeing 720 N7201U The Stars… by James Cook