Matt Wiser wrote:


What's the point in the suit? Does the Navy want to put the plane on display
at Pensacola? Or is it just a grab of a potentially flyable aircraft like
they've done with some of the Lake Michigan aircraft?

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Probably neither- the Navy almost certainly has no interest in flying
the aircraft, and would never have gone to the trouble of recovering the
aircraft on its own.

This is more along the lines of simply defending a point of law, on
the theory that if they don't, then eventually they lose the protection
of that law. It is on the order of copyright or trademark enforcement,
or even the Executive Branch's current spat with the Legislature over
giving sworn testimony over a matter of government policy- they aren't
willing to set a precedent which could come back and haunt them in
some later matter.

Mike