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Jet A
I manage an aircraft fuel leak detection and repair company. Before we can perform maintenance we have to sump the residule fuel left in the wings that the defuel truck can't remove entirely due to the valves being a few inches from the bottom of the tank. Once this fuel is removed from the aircraft and put into any container other than a re/defuel truck it is considered contaminated and no longer airworthy. The company removing this left over fuel has two options. Pay a HAZMAT company to pick it up at a very high cost, or let the employees put it in their diesels. I personally purchased my 01' f250 for no other reason than to get free fuel. I have put over 75k on my 7.3 running nothing but Jet A. The only time I ever purchased diesel was when I ran low on fuel out in the boonies. The only problems I have had with my truck was trash clogging my tank inlet screen(a problem very easy to avoid by filtering, but I'm a pretty lazy person) and problems common to anybody who has a 7.3 with 250k+ miles. Your friends offer isn't totally legit. You can't transfer bulk amounts with out a CDL, and a bored DOT authority could possibly get you for non-taxed fuel(although the airline paid tax on it, thats my story and I'm sticking to it) If you filter it and don't let DOT know, you'll be fine. Its the opposite of stealing.
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