Who needs a new car when you can just go out and buy a helicopter? Â Well if you’re Manny Pacquaio it’s well within your budget. Â As the second highest paid athlete in the world, this was nothing. Â Read more after the jump.
Pacquiao says the chopper is for traveling between his home province in the Philippines and the capital Manila, where of course he is a congressman. So, the purchase isn’t strictly for luxury. That’s what his yacht is for.
The “slightly used†Bell 206A Jet Ranger seats five people. Pacquiao has already given it a custom paint job and slapped his logo all over it. All in all, it was a $427,000 (roughly 18 million Philippine pesos) bill for the boxer.
