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Where did these come from?

Posted by bdk on Fri Feb 27, 2004 09:19:10 PM

In reply top Re: The Guys who had the F-18 on Ebay posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Feb 27, 2004 09:00:14 PM

My guess is that the F-18 was surplused or given to a museum as a wreck, so it was never demilled since it was already written off as not repairable. Of course not economically repairable to the military may be different than physically unrepairable for a very limited civilian use.

The Harrier could have come about the same way, or could have been pieced together. It is also possibly an RAF Harrier, since the USMC Harrier was (as I understand it) a UK built Harrier. The Harrier II was built by McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis.

Aircraft like these probably explain why that demil bill comes around every year... Politicians always want to ban what they don't understand!

: : My question is how and the hell did they get the
: : Harrier and the F-16 both are not De-Mil.
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: Perhaps they are composite builds. After all there is a c
: ivil F-5 that came to be that way.

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