The B-17 Mary Alice (or whatever anonymous scheme they’ve painted it in now) at Duxford is a prime example

Do any of the other Scampton-based private FJs do airshow appearances?

Charlie’s list is the main reason why I don’t buy these things, the view that aviation history suddenly began in 1945 (or even 1939!)

Too many jets, same old subjects that have already been done over and over to death already and therefore offer nothing new. For that reason I’ve never bought one, so probably am not your target audience anyway!

Its just a different view of the world to that which most other countries have. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. Every single airshow has to feature the National Anthem with parachutists and the U.S. flag. It’s just the way things are done in the U.S. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard airshow announcers (as they call commentators) say during the warbird flyby section of the shows say ‘this is the only country in the world you can see this spectacle, because of our freedoms’. As I say, not better or worse, but a very, very different view of the world.

I’d disagree with your comment about ‘fanboy nationalists’, to many U.S. owners they are simply ‘cool toys’ that they slap stars ‘n’ bars on without any regard to their origin or history.

I suspect much of the reason lies with any disposals of US aircraft being thoroughly ‘de-militarized’ these days, making it impossible to restore them to fly again. Therefore anyone wanting to fly a ‘sexy’ fast jet has to look outside the U.S. for a source.

There are 4 or 5 A-4s being operated as warbirds, plus a couple of F-100s (Collings’ and Cuttshall’s), the Colings F-4, Paul Allen’s MiG-29, a few MiG-21s. There was a MiG-23 a while back, although I’ve not heard anything about it lately. Plus, of course, the two Su-27s that vanished into a black hole…