Wow! Real F/A 18 Hornet for sale on Ebay

Claims to be a former Blue Angels ship. Current bid at a little over a
million dollars. They also claim that for 9 million, they'll
re-assemble it, paint it, and render it airworthy. Has an N-number.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=46 72

Additional story on AP news website

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040216/D80OBH900.html

isn't this the one that belly flopped?


"One's Too Many" wrote in message
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Claims to be a former Blue Angels ship. Current bid at a little over a
million dollars. They also claim that for 9 million, they'll
re-assemble it, paint it, and render it airworthy. Has an N-number.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=46 72

Additional story on AP news website

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040216/D80OBH900.html

You might be thinking of the F-16 that the Thunderbirds toasted this past
summer. Although that picture, sure looks like he's close to doing the
same


"Kevin Hill" wrote in message
news:L_7Yb.40181$1O.12176@fed1read05...
isn't this the one that belly flopped?


"One's Too Many" wrote in message
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Claims to be a former Blue Angels ship. Current bid at a little over a
million dollars. They also claim that for 9 million, they'll
re-assemble it, paint it, and render it airworthy. Has an N-number.



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=46 72

Additional story on AP news website

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040216/D80OBH900.html

"One's Too Many" wrote in message
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Claims to be a former Blue Angels ship. Current bid at a little over a
million dollars. They also claim that for 9 million, they'll
re-assemble it, paint it, and render it airworthy. Has an N-number.

Why is it when any of these high dollar, unique items on Ebay get large
media coverage, a few yahoos have to go and make fake bids to insane levels?
Unless someone is REALLY willing to spend 100 million on a used,
demilitarized, obsolete fighter jet. I think a new one from Boeing is
cheaper than that!

Mike O'Malley wrote:

Why is it when any of these high dollar, unique items on Ebay get large
media coverage, a few yahoos have to go and make fake bids to insane levels?
Unless someone is REALLY willing to spend 100 million on a used,
demilitarized, obsolete fighter jet. I think a new one from Boeing is
cheaper than that!



Current Bid: US $27,000,000.00

Yeah, from some pimple faced, 14 year old...

"Tom|420" wrote in message
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Mike O'Malley wrote:

Why is it when any of these high dollar, unique items on Ebay get large
media coverage, a few yahoos have to go and make fake bids to insane
levels?
Unless someone is REALLY willing to spend 100 million on a used,
demilitarized, obsolete fighter jet. I think a new one from Boeing is
cheaper than that!



Current Bid: US $27,000,000.00

Looks like it has been pulled from the listings. It was there yesterday.


"One's Too Many" wrote in message
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Claims to be a former Blue Angels ship. Current bid at a little over a
million dollars. They also claim that for 9 million, they'll
re-assemble it, paint it, and render it airworthy. Has an N-number.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=46 72

Additional story on AP news website

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040216/D80OBH900.html

It's amazing what a visit from the BATF will do for the mindset of an
executive, even one as tough as the lady CEO at Ebay...
There simply is no way the government is going to allow a supersonic fighter
to be sold into private hands without their approval... The fella that has
them is going to get a lot of heat put to his feet before this is over...
denny

"S Narayan" wrote in message
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Looks like it has been pulled from the listings. It was there yesterday.

"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message ...
It's amazing what a visit from the BATF will do for the mindset of an
executive, even one as tough as the lady CEO at Ebay...
There simply is no way the government is going to allow a supersonic fighter
to be sold into private hands without their approval... The fella that has
them is going to get a lot of heat put to his feet before this is over...

BATF? Unless the plane is still armed, why would they be involved?

There are ways around government disapproval. I used to see an
F-104 Starfighter at airshows that was privately owned. The gov. did
not approve of private citizens buying one of these, but there wasn't
a whole lot they could do about this guy. He built the entire plane
from spare parts he picked up from sources around the world (mostly
Germany,IIRC).

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

The Collings Foundation owns (privately) an F-4D (supersonic) in addtion to
its B-17, B-24 and other warbirds. Refer to
http://www.collingsfoundation.org .

"John Galban" wrote in message
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"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
...
It's amazing what a visit from the BATF will do for the mindset of an
executive, even one as tough as the lady CEO at Ebay...
There simply is no way the government is going to allow a supersonic
fighter
to be sold into private hands without their approval... The fella that
has
them is going to get a lot of heat put to his feet before this is
over...

BATF? Unless the plane is still armed, why would they be involved?

There are ways around government disapproval. I used to see an
F-104 Starfighter at airshows that was privately owned. The gov. did
not approve of private citizens buying one of these, but there wasn't
a whole lot they could do about this guy. He built the entire plane
from spare parts he picked up from sources around the world (mostly
Germany,IIRC).

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)