The disposal of the U boat in Liverpool highlights a major problem with preservation and recovery. When the U boat was raised it was very very difficult to find anywhere interested in putting it on display. Sure we who read this forum are keen on historical obects, but we are in the minority.

The aviation example I can think of is what happened to the Sunderland recovered by Peter Thomas and displayed at Pembroke Dock outside. Hardly any local support and eventually moved to Hendon.It is a surprise to read of a planned recovery of another Sunderland for display at Pembroke Dock.

The positive angle is that several Uk air museums which are non public funded , have managed to get large aircraft under cover such as Newark and Elvington. And others such as MAM do a great job of coping with the impact of weathering.