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For sale – limited mileage, one careful owner

· Aerospace & Astronautics · How very odd!

How cool is this? A MIG-21 available on eBay!

Although it is not all that expensive, sadly I really do not have anywhere to put it.

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January 12th, 2007 |

15 comments to For sale – limited mileage, one careful owner

  • Alex
    January 12, 2007 at 12:07 pm

    I’d be careful he’s got a rubbish feedback score!

  • Robert
    January 12, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    A Mig is like a tank or the proverbial 800 Lb. Gorilla, you park it wherever you want. 🙂

  • Billy Beck
    January 12, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    That actually happens with fairly regular frequency. It’s not really surprising, because the MiG-21 was built in greater numbers than other other jet fighter in history.

    It’s an interesting thing to dream about, but in practical terms, it would be enormously demanding. It should go without saying that it would require money-to-burn. (Remember the old saw about yacht racing? “It’s like standing in a cold shower, tearing up hundred-dollar bills as fast as you can.” Well, this thing can put that in the shade in terms of operations and maintenance.) It also requires extreme devotion to flight currency. This is not for your everyday aerial sightseer.

  • Charles
    January 12, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Damn! He doesn’t take PayPal.

    You can’t park it where ever you want. Air forces can’t hold terrorirty.

  • Ross Maartin
    January 12, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    Ask Larry Ellison what his maintenance ratio is with the Mig21. And ask if he might want to form up a club or something. heh

  • Perry de Havilland
    January 12, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    I’d be careful he’s got a rubbish feedback score!

    Not to worry, I really do not have 20,000 bux burning a hole in my pocket.

  • Harry
    January 12, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    As comrade Ulianov mused ‘they will sell us the rope to hang them with’.

  • Nick M
    January 12, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    Perry,
    It’s a Mig-21F (note the forward airbrakes). These were moved from the original rear position to ease maintance. Unfortunately, they had to delete the guns to do it. Would any Samizdatista want to be seen in a fighter without a gun? And the range is abysmal.

    And it looks in a right state.

    I think a better idea was the consortium of British business men who bought a collection of Indian(?) Gnats and are planning on setting up as a private aerobatic team. The Gnat was a great little fighter/trainer and they got them for £100,000 a throw, which is a lot but so is a Ferrari and a jet is much cooler.

  • Perry de Havilland
    January 12, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    It’s a Mig-21F (note the forward airbrakes)… I think a better idea was the consortium of British business men who bought a collection of Indian(?) Gnats

    I know what it is, Nick, but sorry, a Gnat is just not as cool as a MIG-21 🙂

  • Julian Taylor
    January 12, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Is this the same MiG21?

    I hear the latest wheeze is to buy a MiG17 trainer, strip the power unit out of it and replace it with a business jet turbofan – apparently makes for a great 2 seater cityhopper.

  • Nick M
    January 12, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    I dunno Perry. I’ve just never thought Sov warbirds were that cool until the big Sukhois came out. But then each to his own. Now that’s a bloody good idea Julian. The -17, as far as I understand, is a solid nice handling jet. Do you know if anyone is pulling the same trick with Sabres? We could form a MiG Alley re-enactment society. OK I know the -17 isn’t quite historically accurate but it’s a close looking to a -15 as you’re going to get and the -15 was a bugger at high G.

    Well it’s not quite the same as actually owning one, but Samizdatistas can with a liking for cold-war jets make a donation to get XH558 back into the skies at:

    http://www.tvoc.co.uk/

  • Stray Taoist
    January 12, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    We could club together and keep it at Duxford.

    Secretly re-arm it, buy some more, built our own fleet, maybe buy Sealand as well…

  • Nick M
    January 13, 2007 at 5:05 am

    I dunno, Stray Taoist, seen the size of Sealand? Now if we could get some Yak Freestyles on the cheap that might be a player…

  • Alan K. Henderson
    January 14, 2007 at 5:30 am

    Now that’s what I call a recreational vehicle.

    Hey, maybe someone who owns a small, private nation should buy it. Does Sealand have enough runway, though?

  • Ahmad Shehadeh
    May 25, 2009 at 7:21 am

    I realy want to buy that till i get the cash im going toput my ultralight plane n an oction

    note:
    im upgrading my ultralight to release flower bombs
    or even ww2 light bombs

    oction starts when im done with that upgrade

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