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Title: I missed this auction!
Post by: gofaster on January 08, 2004, 07:39:20 AM

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Aircraft Carrier Sold On eBay
 For someone who has everything, how about an aircraft carrier? The bidding was hot for a decommissioned carrier offered on eBay last week. It went to at least $90 million for the "demilitarized" vessel, which may have been a former British carrier also used by Australia. The ship was valued at $2 million in scrap value when ship broker Renming Cheng decided to see what the market would bear. He suggested to potential buyers that it might make a good tourist attraction, hotel, amusement park or museum. More than 350,000 people checked out the offer. It was not immediately known who bought the ship, which is now moored in Ski, Norway.

A tidbit from my weekly AvWeb news email.  Anyone know which aircraft carrier it was?

Title: I missed this auction!
Post by: Dowding on January 08, 2004, 07:44:06 AM

I hope they didn't pay by PayPal. That commision fee would be a real pain.

Title: I missed this auction!
Post by: Mini D on January 08, 2004, 08:30:25 AM

You should have been paying attention:

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104317

Title: I missed this auction!
Post by: gofaster on January 08, 2004, 08:54:32 AM

Yeah, I missed my chance.  Darn!  Did anyone figure out what carrier it was?  I would think those things would be pretty well known.