Thank you for the maturity that your comments bring to this question.
From a personal perspective, I am profoundly grateful to those who restore aircraft or salvage enough items to bring an example back from extinction.
The original designers would have been proud of those people and organisations that preserve representative of their types, or create a master copy of something that once came off their production line.
I wonder whether the historical claims that go with these masterpieces, make the preservation movement vulnerable under scrutiny? That was behind a part of the question as to whether a category would provide historians, observers and enthusiasts with a firm and transparent reference point.
Personally, I get as much out of seeing the wrecked Hurricane at Hendon, as I do seeing a new build Hurricane masterpiece flying at an Air show. Both convey a sense of the sacrifice for our freedom.
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