Why pay $1.59 million for a used Gulfstream IV jet when you can potentially acquire a Fairchild C-119L Flying Boxcar military transport plane for $150? If that’s out of your price range, how about a Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter tanker aircraft for $25?

Those are the starting bids for two of the 16 aircraft available at auction on the website Public Surplus. Big Horn County is selling the aircraft, mainly from the World War II and Cold War eras, after the Wyoming Supreme Court gave the go-ahead.

“They’re aircraft in various stages of undress,” Paul Thur, Big Horn County Airport manager, told Cowboy State Daily. “Some are intact, while others are just fuselages with the wings and stabilizers taken off. But they’re county assets, and the county is selling them.”

Thur doesn’t expect any

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