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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
For a long time Yeager has borrowed airplanes from various makers to do flights and publicity shots in. As far as I know, he does not own a single airplane now.
If you have proof that he owns an airplane, pls provide. I know people who live in the area where he does these days and they have never seen nor heard of him having a personal airplane of any type.
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I said...
"Originally Posted by tcar
Chuck Yeager
HAD one... naturally he put a bigger engine in it!"
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I don't have 'proof', Joe, and I meant to write "had" instead of "has" after Yeager (corrected).
I'm sure he doesn't have one now, if he did.
I read an article, maybe 15 years ago about his 'personal F-104', with a seriously upgraded engine that he used to travel around the country. Assumed it was his, but it's also possible that it was a loaner from Lockheed, or ???
EDIT: Well, I just found an article where Yeager is quoted as having flown 60 years in Air Force cockpits, 208 different kinds of military aircraft and has never owned a plane in his life.