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#181: Boeing Delay Warning, Iraqi Airways Boeing 747 Sale & 3 More Stories

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The Iraqi Airways Sale of Two Boeing 747s

Iraqi Airways is selling off two of its old 747s. Initial bids for the aircraft are going to start at around half a million dollars. The sellers have explicitly stated that any buyer cannot use the aircraft for any political purpose, reproduction or glorification of any personality in any way. But you know this wasn't the only 747 that Saddam Hussein flew in. He also was gifted apparently by a member of the Qatari royal family in 1997 another Boeing 747.

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