They’ve done a SEAC scheme on PZ865. Wholly appropriate to keep LF363 in a BoB scheme IMHO.

One of the problems with FoF is that it is in the midle of nowhere, with nothing whatever to interest wives/girlfriends/non-aviation children etc in the surrounding area.

Another issue is that it is, on a basic level, a big shed full of aeroplanes, parked where they fit best. There is therefore little in the way of context or supporting exhibits to capture the attention of the casual visitor. Kermit makes no secret about the fact that it doesn’t work as it is currently structured, and the miniscule number of visitors “don’t pay enough to pay the light bill”, as he told me. He obviously has a much broader vision, which involves using flight as a metaphor and encouraging visitors to “light that spark within”. What form the renewed FoF takes remains to be seen, but I am sure that it will not be an aviation museum in the form that we recognise it today.

None of the 4 potential UK flyers originated with TVAL

Here’s the original photo

http://eaf92squadron.com/92history.html

I don’t think ‘The Tank Farm’ (Littlefield’s operation) was ever a public museum as such, but was open to pre-arranged groups for private tours

The Airbus from the Hudson river landing, suprised it ended up down this far…………

The reason it ended up here is that Charlotte was the original destination of Flight 1549, which ditched in the Hudson.

Sad to see that the DC-7 is still there. I really hope they get it back in the air again, it looked and sounded great when they flew it at Oshkosh a few years ago.

Sabrejet,

There is a picture of it in Michael O’Leary’s Osprey ‘Sabre’ book, taken in the US subsequent to the auction. It has been positively identified beyond any possible shadow of a doubt as the same aircraft.