So it sounds as though CAF are abdicating responsibility for many of the airframes and hoping that the volunteers will take on the mess they’ve left behind by taking delivery of these aircraft under an unsustainable business model (and, presumably, leave the remaining volunteers to shoulder the blame when it continues to prove unsustainable and all goes t1ts-up)

The Shackleton has nothing to do with Classic Flight, and they made clear a while back that they wanted no involvement with it

“As Airbase gets airborne for 2015 we have to announce another side to the coin with the closure of our Newquay site. This has been an incredibly hard decision, but the costs of maintaining two attractions are too much to justify, given our status as a charity.

Our focus now is on our traditional home here in Coventry, where we’ll be doing more flying, more events and adding more to see and do than ever before. Our task now is to maintain the fantastic visitor reputation our Cornwall guys achieved as the number one attraction on TripAdvisor. Thank you guys, you’ve done a truly outstanding job.

We’ll still be offering pleasure flights and aerobatic experiences from airports in the south west, so everyone with a Classic Air Force voucher – or who just wants to fly in one of our old birds – will have a choice of where and when to take a flight. We’ll be posting up flights and locations in the next ten days.

So from here on in this page will be all about our activities at our Coventry Airbase. 2015 is going to be a big year for us – the year when we really spread our wings.”

From : https://www.facebook.com/classicairforce?fref=ts