Paper: Man Buys Fighter Jet On eBay

Paper: Man Buys Fighter Jet On eBay

POSTED: 11:51 pm EDT April 30, 2006
UPDATED: 6:35 am EDT May 1, 2006

BEIJING -- A Chinese businessman has bought a MiG-21f plane from a U.S. seller on the online auction Web site eBay for $24,730 and plans to use it to decorate an empty space at his offices, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The Beijing News newspaper identified the Chinese buyer as Zhang Cheng.

"I like to collect valuable items. I have the buying power and my company has an empty space where I can display the plane," the newspaper quoted Zhang as saying.

The eBay Web site for the transaction shows the plane is currently located in Lewiston, Idaho.

It said the fighter jet, last flown in 1995, has been inspected by a museum and found to be in excellent condition.

The seller was only identified by the username "inkgirle."

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I have no idea why Iran & North Korea have gone to all the trouble to try and build nukes, I'm sure they could get them by the gross from eBay at a wholesale price!