(US) Navy Jet Fighter Is for Sale on EBay

[RamboLiberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040216_332.html

You can now have your very own Navy F/A-18A Hornet jet fighter but some assembly may be required.

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 $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

[FDRrocks]

1. Nice plane

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3078059896&category=4672

[DemoTex]

2. Lookout Beech Bonanza! We have a new "forked-tail doctor killer"!

F/A-18

BTW: If you buy it, you better be ready to die in it if something goes wrong. Ejection seats are illegal on civil aircraft in the US.

[mobuto]

3. If you're flying around in an F/A 18

Just who's going to tell whom what the law says?

[Fovea]

4. I just don't see the local Family Practice doc

landing this thing at Andover KS, for the fried chicken dinner take out and flying home.

[AZCat]

8. You're from Andover?

I grew up in Hutchinson- is that you on the bike?

[kysrsoze]

10. How much would it cost to gas one of those things up?

Well, I guess if you can afford to buy it....

I'd love one.

[RamboLiberal]

5. I suggest the Rethuglican Party buy this as a consolation

prize for AWOL when we send him back to Crawford next January. He dress up in his flight suit, cinch up his crotch straps and play again that his is a big bad fighter pilot protecting Texas. Hey look what it comes equipped with:

Complete with extras including bomb racks, drop tanks and pylons.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

6. Since Congress has gone to the highest bidders, why not? n/t

[aeon flux]

7. I placed a bid

$1 above the current bid.

It said I was outbidded. Oh well.

[pintobean]

9. keep bidding

Here's what you'll look like breaking the sound barrier.

[LiberalFighter]

11. I thought it was going to be a F-102

[pinniped]

12. I bet Larry Ellison is bidding on that...

or Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Both of those guys got the cash and love planes.

Someone been shill bidding?

Current bid: US $99,999,999.00

[Nietzsche]

13. more planes.

they are selling a mig as well Mig 29

[pinniped]

14. That Mig29 is really cool....but,

think I'll hold out for the Mig 31 Foxhound.

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Since there so many false bidders on ebay we are unable to auction off this aircraft. Call us to make a real offer..We will turn the winning bidder on this auction into collections for failure to complete transaction

Poor phony bidder will be getting their pay checks docked for all eternity.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi Nietzsche!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Bamboo]

15. All show and no go-Like 43rd.

This was in combat when wars were declared.
http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/n41749.htm

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Bamboo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: