Jet planes for sale in NV?

[Chica67]

I hear there is some sort of "underground" market for jet planes out in Nevada somewhere. Is this one of those wild rumors that circulate on the web, or is there a bit of truth to the story? If such marketplace does exist, I wonder if this something that takes place in one specific location (Mojave desert?) or rather it is labeled as "underground" due to less strict regulations that govern this type of commercial transactions in the state of NV (i.e., record keeping on sales of aircrafts and aircraft parts, registration, sales to non-US buyers, etc). Can anyone elucidate? Many thanks in advance.

[Gemini Twin]

At the end of WW2 37 complete Me 262's were shipped to a location near present day Las Vegas in Nevada. They had been carefully dismantled in Germany and shipped in packing crates marked PROPERTY OF NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION. Busy with the development of the F86 NA had the crates buried just north of the present day McCarran Airport and the site forgotten. Recently it was determined that the crates are buried under the Luxor Hotel and Casino which was built in 1992. Using the latest side drill technology and exploritory hole was bored by a recovery tean lead by actor Nicholas Cage. A remote camera determined that the crates are there but surprisingly filled with ground water. Recovery attempts will continue and the jets will be sold by auction at a date and location to be determined.

By the way all those old jets parked at Mojave are probably for sale too.

[MarkerInbound]

Since the FAA issues the registration it's not going to matter which state the the sale is in. States do tax aircraft differently and it can be worth it to have a holding company set up in a lower tax state to own the aircraft.

[sevenstrokeroll]

I live in Nevada. Near Reno (no state income tax)most of the year.

Nevada has a huge, repeat huge aviation heritage and history.

The X15 was dropped near ELY, NV with a radar tracking station there.

William, "BILL" Lear has a road named after him as well as a small theatre.

The Reno Air Races are world famous and worth going to at least once in your life (get a pylon pass if you really want a thrill)

And of course AREA 51, NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE (and much fighter training) FALLON NAVAL AIR STATION (now home of TOPGUN TRAINING).

Best Soaring too near MINDEN nevada and the LEE of the Sierra.

So, you might find planes for sale here, but to my knowledge nothing out of the ordinary.

I even know a road to take to see what is left of one of the two LEARFANS built...its on the pyramid (lake) highway and is used as a b billboard for an aviation company.

There are wrecks all over the desert that are only now being discovered.

But be darn sure you see the plane in person before you buy. I saw a hollowed out F111, without its swing wings and engines at a small airport called silversprings.

don't expect magic...but the desert air is good for storing things. me, I'm 101 but look 22. ;-)

[sevenstrokeroll]

PS

you didn't say what kind of jets...there is a JET class of racers at the reno air races. L39's. Great, but not my cup of tea.

Mojave airport (california) near Edwards AFB has many stored jet airliners, many for sale .

and anyone just looking for an unusual experience should drive reno to bishop to lancaster...the eastern side of the sierra...almost deserted, fascinating...location of japanese internment camps during WW2. Some areas used by the USMC for mountain training...even today!

it ain't kansas!

[fleigle]

Not to mention Highway 50 in Nevada, from South Lake Tahoe to Utah, fantastic scenery, a town maybe every 100 miles, high speed motoring possible.
I've driven it many times.
And to comply with the airplane content, it goes right through (the previously mentioned )Fallon.
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[sevenstrokeroll]

I've driven it too! The Loneliest road in America...traces some of the route of the pony express.

and that F111 is on route 50, about 40 east of carson city.

My mom went to high school in ely, nv.

[West Coast]

Gol dang it. Looked on google earth hoping to catch a peek at the F111, no where to be found

[sevenstrokeroll]

sorry charlie. I promise it was an F111 but really taken apart...just fuselage, vertical fin (with nice view of unique antenna bulge) and unique shoulder where swing wing was (wings removed).

I do remember it was hooked to a tractor.
good luck! silver spring airport

[Gemini Twin]

The F-111 is in Battle Mountain on Interstate 80.

[Desert185]

Nevada is a desolate, lonely place. Wide open, unpopulated space. Brothels and gambling. The Big Empty with big wind. Terrible. Don't come here. "Cows, not condos." :=

Thank you...:ok:

[sevenstrokeroll]

desert 185...you are right...no one should come to nevada...maybe vegas or reno to gamble and then leave...go to florida

[AtomKraft]

I've seen most (well much of) America and we loved our time in Nevada.

My daughter says she'd love to live at Alkali Springs!

Utterly beautiful place and much less populated....

Eremmm, maybe best not to go there!

[evansb]

In July of 2007, I met a sasquatch who recently moved from Oregon's Cascade Range forests to retire in Tonopah, Nevada for health reasons. How he handled the heat with all that fur I'll never know, but he too heard rumors of bargain priced "jet planes" in the desert. He said he spends most days roaming the sage covered desert in search of "jet planes". I asked him if he ever had a hostile encounter with tourists or locals, and he said only once, when he visited the Lunar Crater in the nearby Humboldt-Tolyabe National Forest. A crowd of tourists encircled him, taking photographs and demanding autographs, thinking he was the Star Wars character "Chewbacca". Despite his assertions that he was a sasquatch, even going so far as to pulling on his fur showing it was not a Hollywood costume, the crowd refused to believe he was the legitimate article. To appease the increasingly aggressive crowd, he gave a woman a tuft of his fur as a keepsake and proof he wasn't Chewbacca.

[Spooky 2]

You guys must be forgetting the underground submarine base that connects the Pacific ocean with Walker Lake. Lots of strange happenings around there fer sure. Down right spooky at times.

[Zoner]

Yeah, even I forget about that Undersea Warfare Base in Hawthorne unless I drive by once in a while.