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U.S. navy jet fighter F18 is for sale on eBay
18.02.2004 [18:51]
The price for the jet, which formerly belonged to the Navy's Blue Angels
aerial demonstration team, is just over $1 million on the auction firm eBay,
or about $9 million for a buyer who wants it assembled, painted and
certified ready-to-fly.
Only legal U.S. residents can bid. The auction is scheduled to end Thursday.
An F/A-18 in 1997 cost the military US$28 million, according to the Blue
Angels' official Web site.
Mike Landa, of Landa and Associates, the Washington state brokerage that has
listed the fighter on the Internet auction service, told The Virginian-Pilot
that the jet is in parts and came out of military service in 1994. Landa
wouldn't identify the owner, but said he came by it legally.
"This thing obviously slipped through the system somehow," Landa said
The FBI came out to visit Landa after he put the jet up for bidding. They
wanted to know "what are you selling here," he said. "They wanted to have
the scoop on it."
Landa said he has no doubt that someone will surface to claim the Hornet.
The jet's model can fly about 1,400 mph and climb 30,000 feet in a minute.
Among other items on sale this week there is also a 1986 MIG 29 jet fighter.
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