1) Highly unlikely that the Bundewehr will dispose of an F4F to a private buyer in anything else than demilitarized condition.
2) I think I read somewhere that this was also a part of the original purchase contract with the US, and that any other type of disposal is subject to their approval
3) Who would want to throw money and effort at an aircraft with only 500 hrs life remaining?
4) If any governmental organization outside Germany, e.g. in the UK, would have been successful in acquiring an airworthy F4F, I should have thought that transfer of the aircraft would have taken place while the entire German F4F programme was still up and running instead of retrieving a phased-out aircraft which hasn’t flown for more than 1/2 years.

Maybe for Bruntingthorpe (if an F4F can taxi with sawed-through spars…) but highly unlikely for flight anywhere…

Joseph Koch’s Fliegendes Museum ? Alive and well apparently, and now in Grossenhain (but was founded in Augsburg, then migrated to the UK before it finally wound up where it is now)

http://www.fliegendes-museum.de/alte_website/Fliegendes_Museum/Flotte.html

Hangar 10 on the Baltic island of Usedom?

http://www.hangar10.de/en/

If the container falls off the ship in a storm, the ship sinks or the cargo aircraft transporting it crashes, the sole surviving Hawker Typhoon is, as such, irreplaceably lost.

Gone, lost, game over. Period.

What an incredibly needless risk to take.

The last German F-4F flight took place on July 30, 2013. Ten flying F-4F’s remained in the Luftwaffe inventory on the date of the official retirement of the type on June 29, 2013; two of those will become gate guards in Wittmund and Neuburg and the remainder were flown to Jever in July for scrapping. So it looks doubtful that any will be heading for preservation in the UK, and if so, it won’t be flying in on its own power.

So technicaly these finds, are the German,s own fault.

Would you like to explain this to the family of the young Caterpillar driver who was killed in Germany a few years ago when he dug into an unknown, unexploded bomb at a road works site?

Or to the bomb disposal squads who put their lives at stake every time one of these devices is found (and sometimes on top receive a lot of public criticism, as in the case of the recent Munich bomb)?

This is a very real and very dangerous problem for very real people, many, many of whom were not even born in WW2. Which incidentally ended some 68 years ago, so maybe it’s time to look forward now?

How bl**dy pathetic.

…grey painted metal panels…

Sorry for being an anorac, but were/are they not anodized rather than painted?

Fantastic!