Tom Cruise’s Top Gun fighter pilot helmet sells for €279k at auction

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Tom Cruise’s Top Gun fighter pilot helmet sells for €279k at auction
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Fri, 28 Aug, 2020 - 17:33
Tom Horton, PA

A fighter pilot helmet worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun has sold for €279,000 at auction.

The prop from the 1986 action film, which sees Cruise star as a pilot named Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, was sold for more than five times its pre-sale estimate.

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