And does Kermit fly any of his ‘big stuff’? B-26, B-24, even the previously-airworthy B-25?
It doesn’t mean that it definitely won’t fly again, but his present track record suggests that he likes to keep a handful of the single-engined types airworthy at any particular time, and that’s about it. And, along with a few slow-time rebuilds, that’s what his engineering set-up is geared to support, certainly not the restoration and operation of ‘heavies’.
I think the main problem Kermit faces with his collection is the location. After the last hurricane went thru there & mangled a bunch of aircraft he was quoted as saying his team will take betweent 9-15 years to get back to where they were.
Not the smartest place to site anything by any stretch, let alone a collection of aircraft….at least the USAF has the ability to fly most of their stuff out before the storms hit…
He reminds me of another (small time, by stinking rich) aircraft owner who inherited a pile, if he’d had to work for a living he’d starve.. 🙂
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