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$30 Thrift Store Find a $223,000 Jet Engine Valve
A pricey air valve from an A330-300 made its way to a thrift store in Washington State.
Zach, 35 (he wouldn't tell Newsweek his last name or hometown), paid $30 at a thrift store in central Washington for an engine air supply valve that aftermarket aircraft parts dealer Aeroval says had a "reference value" of $223,520 in 2011. The section of the device with the Honeywell part number (3290628-4) is attached to other things on the assembly and they may have some theoretically astronomical value, too, but he's not banking on a quarter-million-dollar profit. "It's just really amazing that someone discarded hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of commercial aviation parts, even if they are non-functional."
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