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The presidential plane used by the former leader of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, is to go under the hammer later this month, the Artmark auction house announced on Wednesday. 

"The Rombac Super 1-11 plane, seen by Nicolae Ceausescu as a crowning achievement of Romanian industry, will have a starting price of 25,000 euros [$30,000]," said Artmark ahead of its auction on May 27 as part of the All-Star Game event. 

Ceausescu used the plane between 1986 and December 1989. It was also used on his last trip abroad to Iran, shortly before the revolution that overthrew him and led to his execution on Christmas Day. 

The ROMBAC 1-11 was made under license from the British Aircraft Corporation under a deal worth $421m, which was signed in 1978 during Ceausescu's state visit to the UK. This was the first of its kind for a communist leader. He was welcomed with a ride in a gilded carriage to Buckingham Palace alongside Queen Elizabeth II and a state banquet was also held in his honor. 

The plane has since been in a hangar belonging to the Romanian state aviation company, which went bankrupt in 2015 and the assets of which are being sold. 

The aircraft boasts a maximum payload of 47.4 tons and is powered by twin Rolls-Royce Spey Mk 512-14DW engines. The first Rombac plane took to the skies in 1982 but only nine were built before Romania abandoned the project in 1990. 

It is said Ceausescu ensured the plane was kept squeaky clean and it was sanitized and perfumed before every flight. 

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The plane, YR-BRE, would often fly Ceausescu and his wife across the globe. However, when visiting socialist countries, he would always choose one of the two Boeing 707s he had in his fleet, which also included four helicopters, with four crews for the planes and six for the helicopters. 

Ceausescu was always equipped and ready to take off during the 1989 revolution, but he chose to remain in the country. It is said he was so incredibly fond of flying that he would even go hunting without landing his helicopter. 

Ceausescu and his wife Elena ended up fleeing the Romania's capital by helicopter during the revolution, eventually abandoning it near Targoviste before being held by the police and later executed.