In principle I don’t disagree, but from a logistical perspective it would be a nightmare, which is a lot to do with the early (on-going) desire to get as many airframes inside as possible. It’s also worth remembering that several airframes have been assembled ‘in-situ’ to make the optimum use of any pockets of undercover space, which makes simple ‘wheel-outs’ much harder to achieve.
This news item on the website has a view down Hangar 1 taken from the Phantom CIM platform, it also has a list of the airframes in that hangar. The hangar door is at the far end of the shot and the Sea Hawk is in the bottom left hand corner, from this you can get an idea of the size of the task to move the Sea Hawk out.
It’s only as I’ve just looked at this photograph that I’ve noticed that the Tiger Cub (suspended from the roof) is also in the way. The obvious way would be to fold the Sea Hawk wings into their upright storage position; however from the evaluation work carried out for the Draken I don’t believe that Sea Hawk could move out through the main hangar doors with them in this position.
I suspect that he only time such a major ‘reshuffle’ would be contemplated is if the much talked about Hangar 3 ever materialises. The museum would then have another under cover space that the aircraft from Hangar 1 could be moved into – albeit on a temporary basis to accommodate a ‘reshuffle’.
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