The resultant company was incorporated as Bayerische Flugzeugwerke GmBH (Gesellschaft mit bauhaus… essentially a construction firm).

It’s GmbH and that’s an abbreviation for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung which (freely translated) is a limited liability company. “Bauhaus” is a latter-day German DIY-Shop chain or an architectural school of the Twenties/Thirties….

… if 100LL AVGAS gets withdrawn…

Surely you mean when it gets withdrawn…? By the way, one advantage with these engines (at least the Thielert engine) is that they also run on Jet A1.

But, not everybody here might be ideal pilot/passenger material.

Absolutely 😀

Murph’s advice is very important: It’s not enough to be able to pay for the PPL in itself, if you can’t afford to continue flying regularly afterwards you will have wasted the money and the flying you do won’t be much fun due to lack of currency.

I don’t know exactly how the conditions are for microlight flying in the UK, but if I were you I’d seriously consider flying modern 3-axis microlights as well. Generally similar performance – sometimes even better! – as a Cessna 152 but more agile and significantly cheaper to operate (except loadwise)

Lufthansa runs their historic Flight, with a Bf108, Ju52/3m;

The Lufhansa historic aircraft are operated by a separate foundation Lufthansa-Berlin Stiftung. See http://www.lufthansa-ju52.de for more info. They also operate a SAAB Safir (D-EBED) and a Chipmunk (D-ELLY; at least I think it’s theirs) in Lufthansa Training colours, and assisted in the failed recovery of the Condor in off Norway and in bringing the Ju 33 “Bremen” back to Bremen.

The German airline LTU sponsored the restoration to airworthy condition of a DH Dove and continues to support its operation.

do you fancy posting for me?

Done; will let you know what I find out (may also be posted directly here)

If it is of any help I can confirm (from information from a reliable and well-informed source in Denmark) that there is indeed a Firefly on its way to that museum, so it isn’t a hoax/dream/wish. However, I am unfortunately not at liberty to reveal its identity. Sorry, for being so candid, this not being my style usually, but that was what I promised. Hope that at least the confirmation is of use.

“Hoot” Gibson, who had spent several years obtaining his commercial license in Costa Rica.

I shouldn’t think the “Hoot” Gibson did so or ever needed to…

Otherwise, I agree 100% with JDK’s opinion.