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Legendary pilot Chuck Yeager in suit over real-estate squabble

Just because you break the sound barrier doesn’t mean you can avoid being hassled by your homeowners association.

Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager was dragged into a civil court in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday as part of a lawsuit by the Park River Oak Estates Homeowners Association.

The 90-year-old retired Air Force brigadier general is accused of not paying $28,000 in fees to the group for two town houses, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Yeager insists he owes nothing because the association never annexed his property. Yeager said this case is nothing compared with trials he presided over as a general — especially the case of Air Force Col. Jack Broughton, a pilot who shot at a Soviet ship during the Vietnam War.

“They wanted to court-martial old Jack, and so they put me on as the head of the board, and I said, ‘This is stupid,’ so we excused him,” Yeager said.