I read some place (do not know if it is true) that some american bought two MiG-29s from Maldova but he must not have had a good agent look at them because they where not in very good shape when they arrived in the US and it was claimed that the government advised the man that they where un flyable supposedly they where given to the Air Force and destroyed.I think he only paid a few 100k for each which seems a bit low for a MiG-29.
I have also heard "Air Force" urban legends that we acquired several SU-27s and MiG-29s for use at Nellis for Red Flag this is not true I have a very good friend who is an intel officer with the USAF and he was stationed at Nellis and trained people for Red Flags we do not have any such aircraft(or at least we no longer do) what we do is train with nations that do such as Indonesia (my friend went on a TDY from Kadina AB Japan for just this purpose back in 2006 he has some pretty cool pictures from that TDY)and fly aircraft in a manner that the MiGs tend to fly in.I see that the wiki articles mention this but then again it is Wikipedia I do not trust everything posted there as the truth.The part about the FAA listed stuff is probaly true as you can look that up yourself.
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