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So this morning I was perusing a GoC surplus auction for new toys, when I stumbled across the above listed for sale.
Once I wiped the drool off my keyboard, I got to wondering
![WTF? :wtf:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wtf2.gif.pagespeed.ce.pxLiY5pjs4.gif)
is the Government of Canada doing with this very expensive, very special-purpose sport/aerobatic aircraft (having flown a few scale models of the craft, I know from personal experience it is all about performance and not at ALL forgiving nor is it suitable for carrying more than a briefcase)... it's NOT listed as a forfeiture auction, and the listing shows extensive maintenance history details.
![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xshocked.gif.pagespeed.ic.CrwtrNUjLO.png)
Furthermore, minimum bid is set at $295K, while stated net value is $189K. (Can someone with a little more knowledge of the business side of aircraft ownership shed some light on this large discrepancy? Is it a cost of asset/expenditure/depreciation vs market value thing?)
So I go hit up the Canada Civil Aircraft Registry... (Seriously... WTF happened to that once useful resource; now nothing more than a repository for a .csv file...?
![Banging Head |O](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/bangheadonwall.gif.pagespeed.ce.8iLbFYV4Bc.gif)
) and I discover that it belongs to the Canada National Research Council -
Flight Research Lab and they're literally just a few hundred miles away in the Ottowa Regional Airport:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/National-Research-Council-Flight-Research-Lab/420551264812827![](https://scontent.fyto1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/73176058_10157869282659874_3291203391333597184_o.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ohc=qjPllalvOPUAQk3wQ5AhT49nEfTr8se8LOI02Mu18y8GND11Xvn3RYbFg&_nc_ht=scontent.fyto1-1.fna&oh=85f04d7625db55fbedc7b1f1630189b4&oe=5EB35E47)
On
their FB is this
View from today's office window and all I can do is sigh... what a dream job.
mnem
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