Weird donation situation........
Quite by accident & thinking I was purchasing something completely different, I won a government auction and acquired at minimal cost a HUGE jet aircraft refueler(KC-135)test set for testing the ship's hydraulic and computer systems. Now I have absolutely no use for this gear, & the active military doesn't want it back, even though it's in A1 condition. Come to find out, the local air museum here in Denver, "Wings Over the Rockies" can use it in one of their big KC-135 cockpit floor displays, so I was going to donate the equipment to the museum, but I don't know how, and they're not sure either since I got it through a government auction. My main concerns are what paperwork to use, how to submit the reciepts, and how to claim it on my taxes. The government documents I received with it acknowledge the unit's cost at a staggering $113,000.00, but I only paid $500.00 for the unit in the auction. I haven't a clue how to handle this....HELP!?
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