Can somebody loan me $4.64 Million?

[sl8]

From https://theaviationist.com/2019/01/07/for-4-65-million-this-nice-low-time-mig-29-can-be-yours-if-you-hurry/

For $4.65 Million This Nice, Low Time MiG-29 Can be Yours- If You Hurry.

January 7, 2019
Tom Demerly
Military Aviation, Rogue States, Russia


The new paint scheme and complete overhaul mean this aircraft is ready for flight demonstrations, recreational flying or threat simulation. (Photo: Raptor Aviation)

Aircraft Broker Offers Exceptionally Clean, Late-Model MiG-29 For Sale.
It flew for the private threat simulation and training contractor Air USA in Quincy, Illinois. It was registered to an address in Henderson, Nevada not far from Nellis AFB and the massive Nellis Test and Training Range, home of some of the most classified aerial combat training exercises in the world.

And now you can buy it for the very reasonable price of $4.65 million USD. It is a beautiful, late model United Aircraft Corporation MiG-29UB (NATO codename “Fulcrum”) two-seat tactical aircraft.

“We’ve had a few serious calls,” Albert Heidinger of Raptor Aviation in Port St. Lucie, Florida told The Aviationist.

The aircraft listing went up on the Raptor Aviation website recently. The two-seat MiG-29UB was built in 1986 at the Kalyazinsky Machine Building Plant north of Moscow. The airframe has a total of only 818 flight hours since manufacture and only 118 hours since a complete airframe overhaul at the Lviv State Aircraft Repair Plant in Ukraine. The paint is very fresh looking, a beautiful three-color, blue and two-tone gray air superiority color scheme with Russian Aerospace Forces national markings and “bort” number “37”. It carries the U.S. civilian experimental aircraft registry of N129XX.

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[akraven]

1. Sure. Check your fax...........................

[PoliticAverse]

2. Wait until you find out what it costs to maintain. n/t

[jmowreader]

3. Budget for a new set of brake hoses and calipers

True story: whoever was the dumbass that designed the MiG-29's brake system designed it so the only fluid you could put in it was beverage-grade ethanol. Soviet privates will drink anything. When they discovered that you could drink the brake fluid from this plane without dying or going blind, there was an almost instant shortage of MiG-29 brake fluid Air Force-wide. They tried using denatured alcohol but found it corroded the brake system badly. Only booze would do.

If you buy this plane, I'd really recommend converting the rubber parts so you can use standard brake fluid in it.

[FSogol]

7. The very first ground-source heat pumps made the same mistake. They used corn-based acohol and the

ground-source piping was getting drained for drinking purposes. They started adding bittering agents.

[lastlib]

4. Hmmmm--hafta shake the sofa cushions a little harder , but for you.....

[edbermac]

5. Can't afford it.

But I can give you the name of a Nigerian man who’s sitting on a couple hundred million. Just send him a check and he’ll give you 20% of that.

[zanana1]

6. I'd have to wait till the first of the month, but....