Or move the Science Museum’s reserve collection to Duxford? Or at least its reserve aircraft collection so it can benefit from the patronage given from the current visitors there as well as attracting more?

But then, how would you move a Connie by road?

Needless to say if kept indoors then the preserved airliners wouldn’t need quite so much maintenance.

And a building big enough to house them all, and to cope with any growth in the collection would be expensive. But it shouldn’t need to be anything special. Just a big warehouse like all the others thrown up all over the country. Just make sure there is a door big enough to wheel a big plane in at one end. That would, to me, appear to be the cheapest option out of a list of expensive ones.

For now it would be great if we could avoid another Cosford Cull and focus on the long-term preservation of what we have got now.

A larger focus on our civil and general aviation heritage would be great and while places like Shuttleworth’s do a great job it still seems that ‘things with guns’ get the greater portion of attention.

I am appalled by this. This appears to be very underhand behaviour on behalf of the FAAM and blame-shifting. But for what purpose?

Anything a Lin’ can do a Lanc’ hasta do better? :rolleyes:

Avro Lancaster B.V ? 😎

I was not aware they they still were. I can imagine the Malta example would -time and money permitting- ideally be an open cockpit machine. No idea what Kermit Weeks seeks to do with his.

I do like the closed cockpit versions. And where we have the fortune and luxury of have several or more examples of a type it would be good to display them in the various jobs they performed rather than all clamouring to paint them all up in an iconic role.

Would I be right in thinking after Japan’s surrender its surviving museum aircraft -along with its army and navy air forces- were destroyed as part of the disarmament process?

I am sure I have read that somewhere and it stuck in my head. But I can’t find where.