We seethe same issues in modern autos. The McLaren F1 is said to be the last analog supercar, likewise current F1 racers probably won’t be running a 100 years from now, unless the builders or future collector comes up with some clever computer work. Jim Clark’s Lotus has a better chance at operating in the future (alongside WWII aircraft) than digital autos half a century newer.
Though off-topic, I’d have to disagree because it’s already being done: Dawn Treader managed to get a recent Penske restored and running, despite the fact that it comprised little more than a tub and an engine when they started. IIRC they managed to source and re-programme a lot of ECU-related stuff despite the “antiquated” computer language being long-lost. Likewise there are also very recent F1, Champ Car and even Group C cars running quite happily in private hands.
I think we need to wind the clock back imagine what we’d have thought of the likelihood of privately-operated F-104s, F-4s, F-100s, Lightnings (the real one that is) and even a Vulcan if we’d considered the subject back in the 1960s. Even at that time the thought of hordes of reproduction Spitfires and Mustangs – Me-262s even would have seemed absurd, and even more so the thought of cottage industries manufacturing components to support the whole operation.
So no, flying history will not stop at 1960, 1970 or whenever.
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