Not a bad idea Royzee617 but does the owner or a museum have the cash to make an idea like this work ?

unwilling to sell but could be persuaded if he could be sure the buyer would not do exactly what happened with the Spitfire and immediately sell on for a huge mark up

Would it be possible to draw up a contract that would enable the current owners to get a share of the cash if it was brought and then sold for a lot more money ?

One has to ask however would anyone really be able to sell on this Swift for anymore than they might pay for it given its current condtion.

There should be compulsory purchase orders for this sort of thing. If it was an animal, the RSPCA would be entitled to take it away.

Yes that’s all well and good but where exactly would the money come from and who would be responsible for a rebuild. I cannot see the MOD taking any interest in this and I doubt the Lottery would give any cash.

What’s needed to help with long-term preservation is a national charity that could raise funds to buy rare aircraft when they became available, and provide further funds for rebuild and display indoors, or in the case of better conditioned aircraft airshow displays.

Getting back to the Swift can anyone who knows more about this stuff say just how much longer it can be expected to last, before simply falling apart ?

Looking foward to seeing this at Newark, all they need to do now is get hold of a J32 Larsen to make a nice little Swedish Jets collection.

Well it was certainly an interesting program, nice one BBC 🙂

Ok here’s an idea, turn Coltishall into a massive air museum, keep the runways (cheaper to fly planes in than cut them up to get them in).

Display them in the hangers (thus saving the hangers) then in a 100 or whatever years move the musesum elsewhere and you have a nice preserved 20th century (WW2) airbase.

Yeah ok maybe not but its gotta be better than filling it with ****y house’s.

Newark, need to get the S1 Bucc, and the Lightning T5 inside asap, however I think that both these and the T33 were planned to go in the new hanger.

Damien, did you take any photo’s at Newark and if so would you be kind enough to post them please ?