LAUREL, Ore. (AP) — It's definitely the most eye-catching home on the hillside: a blue and white jetliner that logged millions of miles over the last three decades, but saved its most interesting journey for last. The Boeing 727 is set to become the new residence of Bruce Campbell, a quirky 49-year-old electrical engineer who bought the aircraft last year. The plane was towed 12 miles from a field near the airport in Hillsboro, a suburb west of Portland, through downtown and onto a state highway before arriving in this tiny general store of a town just before dawn Saturday.

But by Sunday night, the plane was still stuck on his neighbor's property.

The plan was to pull the plane, resting on wheeled dollies, into a gravel-strewn gully behind the barn belonging to Campbell's neighbors, Paul and Chris Denfeld. There it would stay for a few weeks, until the rain let up and Campbell could figure out a way to get the plane up a muddy slope to his 10-acre parcel.

Turns out, the asphalt driveway was much too narrow, so three massive trucks were used to inch it along atop railroad ties on either side of the pathway. About 20 hired workers spent a day and a half in a driving rain to move the plane only a few hundred feet up the driveway to the Denfelds' house.

Work was stopped until more gravel could be hauled in to support the 32-ton plane, which will remain for a few days next to a goat pen in full view of visitors to the 500-acre walnut and hazelnut orchards.

Campbell, who currently lives in a dilapidated trailer, had dreamed of living inside a jetliner since childhood. He got his wish last Halloween when he purchased the 1969 plane for $100,000. It was decommissioned by Greece's Olympic Airways.

Campbell will outfit the plane with sewer and water, a bedroom, bathroom and workshop for his computer gadgets. After he re-attaches the wings and tail, a deck could also be in the works.

But first came the move, a complex undertaking that will end up costing Campbell about $25,000. For months, he worked to obtain the permits needed to effectively bring the community to a standstill for a few hours.