A Fine Aviation Museum is Closing

Jay Honeck

Jay Honeck

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"Selling" them is probably problematic both from the standpoint that this is a non-profit and that there may be strings on how they acquired them. Transferring to other museums is usually an easy way out.
 
flyingron said:
"Selling" them is probably problematic both from the standpoint that this is a non-profit and that there may be strings on how they acquired them. Transferring to other museums is usually an easy way out.
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I bet most if not all are on loan from military.
 
The aviation Museum community is pretty close knit. After all, there aren't that many of them and they are all interested in the same thing.

I suspect that all those airplanes are already headed to new homes. If, that is, they have any historical value at all.


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I'll ask Margy. She regularly participates in the group "Mutual Concerns" which is an annual meeting of air and space museums around the country.
 
Geico266 said:
Distribute hell! Sell them to people who will restore and fly them!
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Too many of them have been left outside to rot, unfortunately. Most of the outside exhibits were in rough shape last time we were there, circa 2000.
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What I remember most there were cabinet displays, not aircraft. Many of the displays were built and maintained by sponsors who had ahistoric or vested interest in the items being displayed.
 
I sent a note to the leadership of the museum I volunteer at. We don't have any money either but you never know.
 
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