Google jets get parking rights at NASA strip

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Google founders, for $1.3 million a year, get to park their customised, wide-body Boeing 767-200, as well as two other jets used by top Google executives, on Moffett Field in San Francisco - an airport run by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that is generally closed to private aircraft, according to a report on the website of The New York Times.

Officials at the Ames research centre of NASA said the agency signed a unique agreement last month that allows it to place scientific instruments and researchers on planes used by the Google founders. NASA gets to collect scientific data on some flights, which, in addition to the Boeing 767-200, includes two Gulfstream Vs, the report added.