earlier chum spotted an ad for a world war ii fighter plane that's up for sale so my dad and
i decided to check it out wow this is cool so this is it this is our 1942 north american at-6 texan
you guys interested in buying this airplane both of us been talking about getting our
pilot's license so the i bet i could do a pretty good job of crashing this thing
the guys came down from the pawn shop to look at my 86 texan the reason i want to sell this
airplane is my wife and i would like to build a house i'm asking 185 000 for this airplane
it's absolutely worth every penny of it
so it's a 1942. it flew in world war ii and uh the korean war this one did yeah it did so did
it ever get shot no but it actually was a gunnery trainer they actually had a gun mounted right here
and the pilots could actually fire the guns so in world war ii this was the airplane the government
used to train all our pilots the tuskegee airmen all flew this airplane down in alabama
so it's a it's a very famous airplane dominating the skies is one of the things that has made the
united states military the strongest forest for over years it's pretty badass this plane was used
to train the best pilots in the world it has a newly overhauled engine looks like a bunch of
harley motors put together it does and this thing actually sounds like nine harley's all running
it's a nine cylinder 650 horsepower so how fast is it well this airplane accrues at 200 miles an hour
and the structure inside is a roll cage so if they ever flipped it by accident on the ground
it would protect you can we look at the cockpit i actually can't wait to see what it's like behind
the controls of this thing this is bigger than i thought it'd be inside here there you go the
person getting trained would be in the back of the front the instructor would be in the back seat
it's fully dual controlled so there's the throttle stick and all the flight instruments
are also in the back of the airplane as well as the front so you could actually give me
flight lessons in this thing huh that's what it was built for now go ahead and place your feet
on the rudder pedals there that'll boy that steers the tail wheel that's on the ground
so what's this trigger for right here you just shot the guns those 30 cows were blazing
i mean it would definitely be cool to be flying this thing in world war ii shooting nazis
i think i like the way i look in this thing and who knows it might actually
make a great trainer for me and my dad so how much do you want for it my man 185
000 i got a buddy who's a navy fighter pilot you mind if i have him come down and take a look at
it you know if you think he's qualified i think that's good enough let's bring it on
i have no question about the caliber of this airplane i'm ready for this this is my buddy
matt i'm a marine corps f-18 pilot with 18 years of experience a graduate of the naval
fighter weapons school top gun and former u.s navy blue angel pilot come on up have a seat
uh he's got a clean cockpit set up this aircraft is fairly basic to fly landing and takeoff is a
little hard with the tail wheel but literally with the stick it's up down left right to maneuver the
aircraft you've got a pretty easy throttle so the last thing to do here is to take this airplane
flying dennis and i should go airborne yeah let's take her up all right let's do it do your stuff
i'm super excited to fly this aircraft i spent most of my time in jets and this will be really
kind of a throwback it'll be fun to fly this claire i've inspected the exterior and the
interior of the plane we've looked at the log books so i'm really excited to fly the
aircraft i wonder what it's like to just hop into any plane you see and be able to fly it
i don't know but i think it would be pretty cool okay you ready to go
i thought the aircraft performed very well on take-off
we did a bunch of aerobatics we did a couple loops
barrel rolls
oh my god maybe one day i'll be able to fly it
aircraft flew pretty awesome so now i want to keep the nose straight here there it is
a little breaking action apparently it works so how was it awesome
we had a blast good aircraft dennis you've done a nice job restoring that oh it's actually a
lot better than i thought it was gonna be all right so what do you think it's worth
uh right now current market what we're looking at you know i think it's fair value there's
about 170 000 on the spot okay so yeah i think that's probably a fair estimate so what does
it cost to own one of these things first thing is you need to hang it that's about 300 a month
then this aircraft needs to fly it needs to get lubricated oil through the systems fuel
everything's about 275 an hour to fly it seems like this thing is going to cost me a grand a
month just to own until i can sell it yeah that's a that's a safe number all right well thanks
bud okay you bet great to see you matt you're the man okay thanks a lot matt nice shout out
so what is your bottom dollar
i'd look at something around 165 000.
oh you know we sort of came out here on a whim uh-huh it's on a whim i'll give you 140 grand
yeah it's getting warm i mean if i buy it off it's gonna sit around for a while it's
gonna cost me money to own it like resell it or figure out what the hell i'm gonna do with it
well you know it's a vintage and a classic airplane there's so much heritage with this and it
appreciates some value it's definitely something i'm interested in you know what a 157 kind of
warm it up a little bit for you no it wouldn't i mean i'd go like 140 on it if you take it
you gave me 150 we'd probably have a deal today yeah as a businessman i will go 140.
you know if you come up just a little bit at 145 we'd be shaking hands
i'll tell you what my man i'm gonna go back and do a little bit more research if i think we can pay
pay you 145 for it i'll give you a call and we'll do it but uh right now i'm gonna hold you at 140.
boy we were really close so why don't we uh just uh think about that a little bit and
uh maybe there'll be a phone ringing between here and vegas have a good one man all right
thanks a lot guys for coming out i'm shocked that they didn't take the offer i'm bummed we got that
close and couldn't make a deal but i'm glad it was me and corey that got to check out the
plane if we had sent chum and the old man they would have wasted the whole day playing around
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