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Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For sale, right now, on eBay, one former Blue Angel F/A-18A Hornet. ...
If you’re going to need the thing assembled, painted and certified ready-to-fly, though, it’s going to cost you another $8 million. And only legal U.S. residents can bid.
Still, that’s a bargain. An F/A-18 in 1997 cost Uncle Sam a cool $28 million, according to the Blue Angels’ official Web site. ...
“This thing obviously slipped through the system somehow,” Landa said, adding that it was “released during the Clinton management era.”
Normally, the Navy doesn’t just give away or sell such advanced military equipment. ...
Deep pockets are a must; a Blue Angels’ Hornet can burn 1,300 gallons of jet fuel during the time it takes for a typical air show. That costs the government, which buys JP-5 fuel in bulk, roughly $1,378. ...
He said he is in the process of selling an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter and Russian MiG- 29s.
But the Hornet will be special to a war-bird collector. “They can say it’s a former Blue Angel,” he said. “The only one in existence. Probably the only one that ever will be.”
Blog post #2391 in category
Miscellaneous
posted 13 February 04
Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For sale, right now, on eBay, one former Blue Angel F/A-18A Hornet. ...