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The parasitic capacitance of a 36mH air coil will more than likely swamp a variable capacitor to tune to tune to the AM broadcast band.
That's why I don't think this is part of the tuned circuit. More likely used as a choke in the collector/drain/plate or emitter/source/cathode circuit.
But why would you use such a ludicrously high value?