American billionaire Jared Isaacman recently bought the Soviet MiG-29UB fighter. He shared
Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this, whichtranslated the material from The Drive. Journalists of the latter figured out the name of the buyer of the MiG-29UB from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died in 2018. It turned out that the new owner of the fighter is businessman Jared Isaacman, founder of Draken International. This company is a supplier of used combat aircraft. And Jared Isaacman is a pilot himself.
In 2019, the entrepreneur sold his stake in Draken International. The Drive joked that maybe this money was used to buy a MiG-29UB.
Jared Isaacman said that he bought the plane forpersonal pleasure. He wants to perform with him at the air show. The entrepreneur calls the exterminator a unique bird. He says that when you take off on the MiG-29, it seems that it is "a real spaceship." As a result, Isaacman described the plane as the most impressive one he flew.