Posted on 01/17/2025 11:33:12 AM PST by ransomnote
We talked to the owner of Air USA about probably the most incredible private aircraft purchase of all time and the future of his adversary business.
For the last 30 years, Don Kirlin has been flying for the airlines, working on real estate deals, setting up the world’s biggest skydiving meets, and building a private air force the likes of which even he has a hard time believing is possible. Just last month, The War Zone was among the first to report that his company would be purchasing multiple squadrons worth of surplus Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornets to be used in the contractor adversary air support role here in the United States. In that role, they would primarily fly against U.S. military fighter pilots, replicating aerial threats from potential enemy nations. So basically, they are bad guys for hire, but strictly for training and development work.
Now, not only do we have all the details on that purchase, which is even more impressive than it initially seemed, but we talked at length with the entrepreneur owner of Air USA, located in Quincy, Illinois, about his company’s past and what is turning into a remarkable, if not downright historic, future.
Don Kirlin imported his first foreign military jet, and L-39 Albatross, in 1994, at a time when doing so was an extremely complex and convoluted affair full of pitfalls and unknowns. Since then, he has repeated the process dozens of times over and was the first owner of a private MiG-29 Fulcrum in the United States, among a long list of other exotic flying firsts. He now holds eight licenses with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), allowing him to own military machine guns and cannons, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition to fire through them.
MORE AT THE LINK: https://www.twz.com/32869/this-man-owns-the-worlds-most-advanced-private-air-force-after-buying-46-f-a-18-hornets
Awaiting the hyperventilating, hand-wringers to show up.
Awaiting the hyperventilating, hand-wringers to show up.
This is why America is the freest, greatest nation in the world. I cannot imagine English pederasts or Australian pussies or Canadian squealers allowing such things in their countries.
Prolly coulda found better MIL surplus deals in Afghanistan or Ukraine
Quincy, Illinois is a great conservative city.
I spent some time around there.
I like those posters.
Pretty cool story! And he is in the deep blue state of Illinois.
Wish I was this guys best friend!
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I want one. That’d put the beer store at 45 seconds away, but then you have to land and that parking lot is always full.
Oz military equipment Ping !
Hmmm.....could also be a private “flying tigers” For hire for any hotspot...could be great...could be very bad...depending on who gives him the most money...
Good one.
He should buy F-14’s, he could see what being poor looks like.
Bet if they let that guy arm his squadrons with two thousand pound cellulose encased water bombs programmed to detonate at two hundred feet and let experiened ex military pilots a run at those fires, they would be out after a few precise missions,
I loved the comic book “Blackhawks” as a kid. A private air force for hire. What a country. A new movie, “ The Dirty 4 Dozen “ rounding up of course.
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