Tue, Apr 09, 2019
Includes Fifteen Aircraft Registered With Logbooks Including Several With Combat History
Platinum Fighter Sales is offering a fleet of 34 T-28's for sale, including 15 with registration numbers as well as well as complete log books. Several have combat history and one T-28B was the model used by Monogram in its plastic 1/48 scale aircraft kit.
The balance of these historic T-28's include most components. The sale includes new parts to build 5 Trojans. The lot includes new B wings and D wings, and 9 Curtiss - Wright 1820-86 engines with logs and blueprint aperture cards. Also included are T-28 props and Tracker props; full scale original factory N.A.A. blueprint drawings, and; microfiche/aperture cards. Condition and inventory will have to be verified by purchaser.
The lot also includes rare and hard to find parts, including a large AN and MS hardware collection. The sale includes two gooseneck trailers to facilitate /transporting to anywhere in the US. These trailers include stands and jigs for moving multiple wings and fuselages. Platinum Fighter Sales has a new factory lifting sling designed specifically for the T-28 built to the factory blueprint specifications.
The company has the built-up fuselage fixture rotisserie as well as the wing rotisserie fixture. Included also is a stationary hot dimpler machine, commercial grade swaging equipment, Aeroquip hose assembly equipment as well as Aeroquip pressure testing cabinet. All of this and more is included in the sale.
The asking price for the lot is $175,000.
(Image provided with Platinum Fighter Sales listing)
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