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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 22 (UPI) -- Alaska wants an aviation broker to do what eBay couldn't: get rid of the governor's jet.
"The eBay thing didn't work out very well," said Dan Spencer of Alaska's Department of Public Safety, who is charged with trying to unload the Westwind II.
The new plan calls for Turbo North Aviation, an Anchorage-based aircraft broker, to receive 1.49 percent of the deal if it sells the jet, bought for former Gov. Frank Murkowski. The aircraft cost Alaskan taxpayers about $2.6 million, the Anchorage Daily News reported Sunday.
Gov. Sarah Palin beat Murkowski in last year's Republican primary with a campaign promise to sell the plane, which was purchased over the objections of the state Legislature.
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