anybody want to by a mig 23?
 

ran across these migs at a small airport in the texas panhandle..
story goes: some guy moves out of the big city to the sticks, finds an investor, goes to poland and bys 10 mig 23s which are taken apart and shipped to the airport in texas. he claims that he is building them for the airforce to use as drones, or for anybody who basically has the money to buy one. 3 years later, two are assembled and running, but not flying, and the rest??? see below..

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Whats his price?

here is some stats.. http://www.enemyforces.net/aircraft/mig23.htm

dont know the price, ill see what i can find out tomorrow..

God, I can't imagine how much fun it would be to fly a fighter jet. Any fighter jet. Could any civilian w/ a pilots license fly one if he owned it? (Training obviously necessary). Would sure freak the **** out of the rest of the general aviation traffic.

Note: some assembly required...

Do you think you would you need a mig welder?

Oh where in the TX panhandle btw. I get the feeling you are not too far away.

That would be a good (and rare) source for aircraft-quality metric fasteners.

Sherwood

Group buy?

Now that's funny.



Looks like he wants to start his own air force. I would like to know how much he has invested. I seem to remember back a few years you could buy a mig for pennies on the dollar. I do some welding for a guy who is restroing a mig23ub and he told me he paid less for his, in flying condition, than a small single engine plane.

...but just burns more in gas everytime he flies it than the cost of a single engine plane, haha.

There is a lot of FAA red tape to be dealt with. I have not read up on the regulations recently, but it may not even be possible any more. IIRC, the aircraft would have to be operated with some type of restricted or experimental certificate.

Or just at night.

I saw one of these get shot down during Desert Storm...

"EXPERIMENTAL" mmmmmm another way of saying "lab test rat!"

These will be part of Gov. Perry's new Texas Air Force, flying (northern)border patrol against those rascally folks from Oklahoma and New Mexico.


"Howdy pardner...don't mess with Texas"!;)

i remember right after the berlin wall fell, trade-a-plane was full of MIG-15s. everyone from poland to egypt was dumping them for $30,000 and less.

If that were to go down I'm shaggin to Canada. Have no interest in fighting in a war in my backyard.

So, when Texas seccedes, the State can buy them for the new Texas airforce !