Did you know that the feds sell airplanes?
1996 AVIAT Husky A-1 aircraft. 4800 hours total time on airframe, 800 hours on factory overhaul Lycoming O-360 & Hartzell CS Prop and Governor, Casper Labs oil filter adapter, King 135 Comm and GPS Nav, KX 176A xponder, HD gear and horizontal stabilizer attach to CW SB14.
This was in public service and has 2 field approved fold-up photographic windows on left side of cabin. This airplane has been hangered all it’s life.
Maintained professionally with 100 hour scheduled service. Fresh detailed inspection at factory to move airframe from restricted category to normal category.
Slight damage history, repairs made at factory. Maintenance history complete on airframe and current engine.
Going for $60,000 right now with three days left on the auction and precisely one bid. Around $73k of value from AOPA’s Vref value estimator.
The tip jar is there to your right.
I’d contribute to the cause but I know that straight and level would just be too boring for you. Why can’t our government by Decathalons?
I’d help you out, but then you’d have to worry about insurance, hangar, fuel, maintenance, ad nauseum. What kind of friend would help you acquire such a problem?
Just kidding. What I could afford to send your way would leave you about $59,999 short. A guy can definitely dream though.
“Slight damage history” ??
Come on, from Mach 2 to Mach 0.2. Can you really be happy? And with a child depending on you for college. Idaho Joe is right, reality is a cold slap to the face, ain’t it?
I’m guessing that “slight damage history” means someone ground looped it and scraped a wingtip. Either that or nosed a prop into the ground.
While I have nothing to back it up… what are the odds that ground loops are the most common sort of survivable incident that occur in taildraggers?
Yep the feds sell airplanes that’s for sure. In your “beliefs” section you referenced the IRS. Here they are in action with a Steward S 51 – 3 Quarter Scale P-51 replica up for auction in January.
http://www.ustreas.gov/auctions/irs/skmo_airc_4102.htm
Chris
That Mustang is much more Lex’s style anyway. Get it repainted as a FJ Seahorse, Lex is NAVAIR, after all.
http://www.mustang.gaetanmarie.com/articles/naval/naval.htm
Scott
Thanks for that long forgotten snippet of Naval Aviation. Won a huge bet in the bar at Rota one night with me telling a couple of P-3 guys that the Mustang was carrier qualified. My next door neighbor’s neighbor in Jax was on the S-La when they did the testing. Good Lord that man could cuss. the archives in DC have it all.
Cheers
The archives have the testing records, or the cussing?
An airplane is a hole in the air you fill with money.
Saw this on Govdeals a while back. I’ve been eyeing the Husky for a while now. Oh well, keep dreaming I guess.