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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:23 pm 
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Hi,
just thought I'd post the link to a "clipped" wing T-33 that is being auctioned off on the GSA website. Currently at the Yankee Air Museum.
Too far away for me, otherwise I'd be really tempted !

https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/auc ... CI23020301

Happy Thanksgiving everyone !
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It would be a neat "let kids climb in it" or parade float display.

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Oops. Looks like it's trying to be an F9F:
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T-33A-5-LO s/n 58-492
*5/6/1972: Struck off charge at Andrews AFB, MD.
*1976: Sold to Montcalm Community College in Sidney, MI and registered as N24837.
*Currently preserved at the Yankee Air Museum at Detroit-Willow Run APT, MI.

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Reno racer???
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If the aircraft was civilian-owned, registered with the FAA, and has an N number. Why is it Government Auction? It can't be government owned?


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ALOHADAVE wrote:
If the aircraft was civilian-owned, registered with the FAA, and has an N number. Why is it Government Auction? It can't be government owned?


I do not know the particulars of this airframe, but a good number of display airframes at public and private museums and places like VFW chapters, etc. are on loan from the US Government, and as part of the lend agreement if the custodian is no longer able to care of the artifact, or it is surplus to their requirements, it reverts to the US govt for disposition. Perhaps the title was not quite as clear as implied in the "sold to" reference above.

Think my wife would notice it in the driveway?


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That seems to have been a rule back when these planes went to training schools - I remember a caption on a photo of a civilian-painted T-33 at a technical college in Air Classics in the mid-70s, saying "Even though these aircraft are never to fly again, the USAF requires an N-number be registered for them. Perhaps this is to keep a record of where the aircraft are."

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