It was, and still is, unbelievably fast, with a top speed of 1,390 mph and climb rate of an insane 770 feet per second.
With over 11,500 built, it’s the most-produced supersonic jet in aviation history. “But you’d need a proper support crew, dedicated mechanics, and it’ll cost you $10,000 in gas for a quick flight.”īelieve it or not, the fearsome, Russian-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 is still being flown today by Indian and Syrian air forces, more than 65 years after its maiden flight in June 1955. “Of course, you can go all the way to something like the fully rebuilt F-4 Phantom that’s for sale for around $3 million,” he adds. They’re cheap to maintain, reliable, easy to source parts and really fun to fly. Great “starter” jets, says Hinton, include the workhorse Czech L-39C trainer that is priced from the mid-$300,000s. If you have the experience and the money, the investment is worth every cent,” says Steve Hinton, president of the Chino, Calif.-based Planes of Fame Air Museum, and owner of restoration specialists Fighter Rebuilders. “There’s nothing like the thrill of flying any military jet. No one knows how much the accomplished pilot paid for the MiG, but right now there are five for sale on in the US, ranging in price from $2.5 million-less than the sticker on a Bugatti Chiron supercar-to $4.65 million for a fully certified, fully flying 1986 model. Isaacman, who made a fortune with his credit-card processing company, is just 38. Jared Isaacman hit the headlines last year when he bought the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s treasured 1989 Cold War MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet.
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