Seats
T-33 Ejection Seat
T-33 A Lockheed designed and built ejection seat. Good condition. It sat in Texas for some time and while I have stored it in the hanger since I got it, it did sit outside. The decals are faded, but clear and readable. It has the O2 and g-suit hook ups fixtures, but no hoses on the lower left along with the remains of the comm cord. Dusty and sun faded paint, light corrosion on steel parts, nut and bolt head etc. It has the usual service ware with bare spots and paint chipping. The 24V electric seat lift motor and actuating switch are there as well, but I have no idea if they still work. Remarkably all of the vinyl head and arm rests are still there in decent shape, no significant cuts, tears or wear. No shoulder or lap straps. It should be a relatively easy restoration, needing scrubbing and using wiping down with Armorall or wax to help the finish. For a complete restoration the seat needs a complete paint strip and repaint
and new decals. This seat looks like what an ejection seat should look like.
I am asking $300 for this seat. It can be easily shipped, strapped to a pallet.
Two F-84 F seats
Two Republic built ejection seats from F-84F-25s. They are being sold as a pair because it may take some mixing and matching of parts to make one good one. These seats are in "as removed" condition from the aircraft. They were from test article fuselages that were damaged and had sat outside in the desert for decades and it shows. They are faded, weathered, and slightly shrapnel damaged. I stored them indoors for all the years that I have had them. They are a relatively easy restoration, nothing complex about them, light weight, relatively complete (except as noted below) with enough in the way of decals and markings between them to allow them to reproduced. Both are slightly shrapnel damaged.
Seat #1
is missing the right arm rest and the head bumper/rest. The headrest is dirt simple and would be easy to fabricate using a couple of short pieces of pipe and a half round piece of aluminum, steel or wood, cut to shape and covered with red vinyl or leather. It has shrapnel damage to the back and bottoms the foot trays, but it does have the both of the ejection actuator handles. As I recall it has a 52- tail number stenciled on the seat back. It has no (or only partial) chopped up seat belts and no shoulder harness. It has damage to the thin sheet metal cover on the inside seat back and at the bottom rear of the seat bottom. It has a repairable 2 inch crack in the left side of the bucket. It is in poor to fair condition at best, but still not a difficult restoration. Upholstery shops that can do the arm rest reproduction or restoration and head rest recovering if you didn't want to do it yourself. The old ones are there as go-by patterns. It should not be expensive, difficult or time consuming.
Seat #2
Zinc green in color, has shrapnel damage to the back, bottom and foot trays. There is a partial 52- tail/serial number in white paint on the steel canopy breaker plate. The damage holes don't show in the photos, but are there. This one is missing the left hand actuating handle and right arm rest and like the others needs new arm rests, headrest padding and vinyl or leather. It has an orange stripe down the middle of the bucket, the purpose of which is unknown to me. There is slight damage to the fragile seat back that can be seen in the photos on the seats upper right hand corner. There is some metal damage on back and bottom rear of the seat bucket as well.
If you have basic sheet metal skills or good machine or body shop the missing and damaged parts could be inexpensively fabricated and one could get two pretty good ejection seats.
I am asking $250 for the pair "as is where is".
B-52 Ejection Seat
“Seat, Downward Ejecting, B-52”. This seat is dusty with , faded paint, weathered and service worn, but in relatively good overall condition. Very little skin rash/damage. It is missing the lap strap, but does have shoulder straps and the kicker strap in the bucket. The head rest needs refinishing which is not a big task. It has some of the original electrical wiring still intact and the rear rail structure and rollers in place. It also has the medieval looking leg restraint clamps and what I am guessing is the center pull ejection actuating handle.
$750
Shipping and something for packing material and handling is extra. It's a monster seat and really heavy. It can be wrapped and strapped to a pallet to reduce shipping cost.
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availability.
F-105D Ejection seat
Republic built ejection seat in fair to good condition. The seat needs to be completely stripped and repainted, the head rest replaced or patched and repainted. The seat has a few shrapnel holes that need patching and structural parts that need filled in with JB Weld or equivalent, sanded and painted. The original shoulder and lap straps are still there, but are damaged and faded. The arm rests are deteriorated and need refinishing or replacement. The oxygen hose is in very poor shape, the g-suit hose missing. There are supposed to be two pieces of plexi-glass that screw onto the sides near the arm rests that are gone, but could easily be fabricated. I know of a restored seat that has still has them on it that I would provide photos to use as go-bys.
A check of the tail number on the seat with the Air Force Historical Center found that it had a combat history. That tail number aircraft flew with the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Takhli RTAFB from Jun of 66 to Jan of 69. Before SEA it was at Eglin, Johnson, McConnell and Nellis AFBs and afterward at Andrews AFB in the Air Guard before being dropped in Feb of 83. The fuselage was used for testing in the 80's and that's where it got the shrapnel damage. Too bad the rest of it could not have been salvaged.
Asking $1200 for it because of its history and relative rarity. In restored condition and they are really impressive. This is not an easy restoration, but very rewarding.
Survival kits and parachutes are around for this type seat and are generally reasonably priced. Click the Miscellaneous switch on the Magnum Aero home page menu for survival kit availability.
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