article_snippet.sent: : Elvis Presley bought both planes in 1975 .
article_snippet.sent: But Elvis Presley’s planes are to be taken from the grounds of Elvis Presley’s former mansion after local officials signed off the controversial deal.
article_snippet.sent: OKC spokesman Tim McCaskill told Memphis City Council this week that the goal was for construction work at Elvis Presley’s planes’ new home to be finished in time for Elvis Presley’s planes to be moved there for Elvis Week in August.
article_snippet.sent: At one stage, Elvis’s former wife Priscilla stepped into the heated row - telling fans who were outraged at the prospect of the planes being moved to ‘calm down’.
article_snippet.sent: Both planes were sold after his death in August 1977 and bought a few years later by OKC.
article_snippet.sent: Heated debate: Elvis's ex-wife Priscilla Presley joined in the row over whether Both planes should stay at Graceland with this tweet to Elvis's ex-wife Priscilla Presley fans last year.
article_snippet.sent: Elvis took great pleasure in flying friends there in Elvis smaller Hound Dog II jet to check on the progress of the refit, which Elvis personally oversaw.
article_snippet.sent: Marie 28-passenger Convair - could fly Presley up to 3,000 miles (4,800km). 
article_snippet.sent: The last journey the plane made for the family was in August 1977 when the plane made for the family transported Elvis's ex-wife Priscilla and his good friend George Hamilton from California to his funeral at Graceland.
article_snippet.sent: Presley and Presley Elvis board a private jet in the 1960s.
article_snippet.sent: The couple separated in 1972 .