Lockheed F-94 for sale for $20,000 ...

[Mark Allen M]

hmmm!!

https://www.ebay.com/i/254016643432

[quemerford]

Not worth $20k sadly, but certainly something that would look great in any museum: let's hope it goes to a good home.

[Cutlass]

Not worth $20k sadly, but certainly something that would look great in any museum: let's hope it goes to a good home.

Really? What are your options if you would like to restore an F94? 20k is cheap for a starting point like that.

[Kyleb]

Not worth $20k sadly, but certainly something that would look great in any museum: let's hope it goes to a good home.

Really? What are your options if you would like to restore an F94? 20k is cheap for a starting point like that.

Would T-33 wings be a bolt on fit?

Anyone know?

[Richard W.]

darn. I write better, longer descriptions for $25 items I sell on eBay.

"Army air core"?

[JohnB]

Anyone know the history of the fuselsge?
Not that many F-94s left.
I used to update wiki on such stuff before someone started removing necessary notes indicating past locations (necessarily to chart history of the airframe) and demanding citations.

[martin_sam_2000]

Anyone know the history of the fuselsge?
Not that many F-94s left.
I used to update wiki on such stuff before someone started removing necessary notes indicating past locations (necessarily to chart history of the airframe) and demanding citations.

I can't find anything on this airframe at all. Second prototype converted, a picuture of it during testing, then nothing till this e-bay post. Looks to be a backyard in west Islip, NY.

even Aerial Visuals has nothing. http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDos ... rial=16674

Sean

[marine air]

It's definitely worth $20K. Did you read the history of it? Lots of neat options for this survivor.

[SuperGuppy]

Not worth $20k sadly, but certainly something that would look great in any museum: let's hope it goes to a good home.

Really? What are your options if you would like to restore an F94? 20k is cheap for a starting point like that.

Sir, what exactly do you know about 1950s fighters needing restoration to flight status???

[quemerford]

Andy Marden's 'US Military Out of Service' has it in a Long Island back yard since at least 1991.

[Cutlass]

Not worth $20k sadly, but certainly something that would look great in any museum: let's hope it goes to a good home.

Really? What are your options if you would like to restore an F94? 20k is cheap for a starting point like that.

Sir, what exactly do you know about 1950s fighters needing restoration to flight status???

Nothing, absolutely nothing...... But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once or twice during Oshkosh....

Lol

[JohnB]

I love old airplanes, but I'd have a hard time paying $20,000 for an incomplete fighter.

[Joe Scheil]

I love old airplanes, but I'd have a hard time paying $20,000 for an incomplete fighter.

How many complete fighters are available for around $25,000? Would you pay $45,000 for a serviceable Mustang Fuselage? Spitfire fuselage? Corsair center section with light oxidation? Of course you would.

This is a historic jet, built as a TF-80C and the second YF-94. If anything she should be in a Lockheed Museum! Certainly, the plane here is the last and only example of its kind available to a civilian. There are no comps for the value of an F-94, let alone any F-89 or F-86D in civilian hands or available for sale. Jet fighters are generally owned by the government and any T-33 or other plane that used to be in USAF or USN service must be shredded before it is disbursed to one of us. It is doubtful anyone will have the finances, will and skill set needed to restore this prototype to flight. Even doubtful someone will use a spare T-33 wing to make a static. But that’s not really important to the hopeful buyer of this artifact.

The buyer of this plane will need to be like the past owner of the plane who when his work day was done, would go in the back hard and polish his fighter jet and dream of better things. Some guys go home and do the same in 1/32 scale, but this guy was a dreamer and sort of a doer too. Believe me when I say that I would like a MiG something by the pool when I build my new house, and a $20K budget is about right for that. So this isn’t out of the ballpark by too much. For many who don’t own airplanes, can’t pilot one, and want to save a Warbird, here is your chance. It’s never cheap. It’s never easy, and it never comes at the right time. Deal with it and caretake this plane for the next 30 years. If someone saves it long enough....it may truly come into its own in value. After all, where can you find another one?

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcom ... 000544225/

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[quemerford]

Yes it should be flying, but with a/b it won't be restored to fly. Most airshow goers want to see P-51s, Spitfires, B-25s and F-86s. 95%+ wouldn't know a Starfire from a Scorpion and that's often what pays the bills. So unless a Cold War enthusiast or the son/daughter of F-94 personnel (with mega bucks to support the world's only operational afterburning J48) steps in, it's static museum fodder.

So you have to ask what museum has 20k to spare on a fuselage for a static restoration? After all (as many will see it), it's an airframe with no combat history or even an operational squadron history. And yes there are complete airframes out there for around, or less than 20k.

Nevertheless I do hope it goes somewhere where it will be safe and maybe get some wings too!

[Joe Scheil]

So you have to ask what museum has 20k to spare on a fuselage for a static restoration? After all (as many will see it), it's an airframe with no combat history or even an operational squadron history. And yes there are complete airframes out there for around, or less than 20K!

That’s really great to hear! I had no idea. Please tell me which airframes are complete and available at that price as I would like to have a C model, even without a combat history. Please post which airframes are available for sale...