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From: rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk)
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Subject: Re: US Posession of Foreign A/C
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Date: 23 Aug 90 01:48:22 GMT
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From: rdh@sli.com (Robert D. Houk)
In article <1990Aug18.182547.24334@cbnews.att.com> sxdjt@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (TABOR DEAN J) writes:

   Has there ever been any public acknowledgement of the US "owning" aircraft from
   other governments, ie; the Soviet Union?  I am 99.99% positive that we have at
   least one (I *thought* I saw something, but...) and logic would only say that
   we must have more floating around somewhere, akin to the captured Zeroes and
   various German planes in WWII.

At the Air Force Museum (Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio) there is a
MIG (-17, I think?) on display with a little plaque explaining that a N.
Korean flew it to a US (or US-controlled/friendly) base and landed, thus
collecting some bounty ($100K ??) which the defecting pilot claimed to not
know about. The US took the plane apart to see how it worked, then put
it back together and "offered it back to its rightful owner". No response
came back, no owner stepped forward to claim it, so the plane got stashed
away in the museum.

					-RDH