Always facinating to hear the tales of Doug Arnold and his collection. I certainly think we will never see a warbird movement on that scale ever again (certainly not in my lifetime at least).
His collecting and trading just seemed to be at the right place at the right time when the warbird ‘boom’ really took off after the BOB movie.
Im interested to know, how far did his ‘personal’ passion for Warbirds go? Was it just in the prime Business? He certainly was very private to not share (which he was entitled to be ofcourse) if there was a passion related element.
For anyone who has not read it, i would advise reading the chapter relating to Doug Arnolds collection within “lost aviation collections of britain” written by my personal hero Ken Ellis.
As a personal interest relating to our shared passion on the subject i am looking forward to seeing an ex ‘DA’ collection aircraft appear again in the not too distant future…genuine 8th air force veteran P51D ‘Mary Mine’ which i believe has recently been purchased by Nick Grace (who coincedently on the subject appears to be one of the ‘new’ primary warbird entrepreneurs of recent times)! This P51 went ‘missing’ for many years to resurface itself recently…wonder how many more there are out there!
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