I do wonder about Marshall’s, although they did rule out a move to Wyton or Alconbury after an extensive review a while back.

Alconbury has been shut for years as an airbase unless it is a legal paperwork signing over issue.

Just because they don’t have pointy, noisy things there any more doesn’t mean that it has closed altogether. Although the airfield is no longer active and is not under US control any more, there are still quite a few units and several hundred personnel stationed at Alconbury, plus schools, shops, etc, all under USAF control.

The Canberras are part of Classic Air Force/Air Atlantique/Classic Flight/Airbase or whatever they call themselves this week.

As has been said Peter, that’s not the Museum’s call. It is a NMUSAF-owned aircraft and must be returned to them for disposal.

Still in storage I believe

The Chino F-14s were an entirely different story, being privately-owned and not on the books of any US National collection.

Probably not far wrong, although (as with Spitfires) not all of them are necessarily actively flown at any given time. I think we got nearly 80 together at the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends in Ohio in 2007, and another 20 or so of the West Coast ones that I used to see fly regularly didn’t make the trip due to the loss of the event’s fuel sponsor.

I’m sure the total flying Spitfire population is more than 50, but someone on here will know the actual number.

The number seems to hover at around 50 active examples in total at any given time, with 10 or so of these being Griffon-powered ones.