Your Online Marketplace for Classified Jet Parts

jonerik writes: "Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Air Force is less than pleased about the recent posting of a number of sensitive jet communications components on eBay, including parts for the SR-71 spy plane, the F-16 fighter, the KC-10 tanker, and the giant C-5 transport. According to the article, the parts had sat in a warehouse for 12 years after being lost in shipping when the dealer, Norb Novocin, bought the lot for $244 in an unclaimed property sale. Novocin ended up selling four of the items to bidders in a recent auction, including an X-Band Weather Radar Modulator for $500 and a high-frequency radio circuit card for $32. The Air Force is looking into the incident and Novocin is cooperating."

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is there anything

[paradesign]

as truly american as ebay? its like the worlds largest garage sale. deep under the piles of shit stacked as high as landfills are some rare finds. plus if the gvmnt didnt want them sold they should have kept hold of them in the first place, instead of losing them like the abomb in sum of all fears.

Re:Here's The Actual EBay Pages...

[echucker]

For the lazy, here are the items that actually sold, the prices, and buyers. Note that only one bid was received in each case.

SR-71 C-9 Circuit for HF Radio AN/ARC-190 yqz $32.24 tj913
KC-10 C-5 X-Band Radar Modlatr AN/APS-133 yqz $586.98 fedx2
Secure Digital VHF Panel Assy AN/ARC-106 yqz $67.80 strale64
F-16 C-130 AN/ARC-186 Radio Rear Assy yqz $28.52 k4bdj@sensible.net

No product support from US Goverment?

[Chicane-UK]

This quote is amusing..

The magazine pointed out that rogue nations such as Iran routinely seek replacement parts for their U.S.-manufactured military planes.

I just find it funny.. the US must have sold them the planes in the first place.. and now that Iran falls into an area under the Axis Of Evil moniker, its suddenly a serious problem that they try and obtain parts? Perhaps you should have thought of that...

Don't blame the surplus sales staff...

[AB3A]

Having purchased military surplus myself, I can honestly say that these folks have very little idea what they're working with. They're not paid enough to know that much.

Add that to the fact that these miscellaneous boxes of stuff were lost in a warehouse to begin with, and, well, what do you expect? The real guilty parties were the ones who didn't track down the original boxes when they were lost. After all, they could easily have fallen in to the wrong hands back then.