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India Four Two
India, as I understand it that all started out as Paul Allen's personal collection. However as it grew someone had the brainstorm to create a museum - I don't know if it actually makes a profit but at least it offsets the cost of storing his collection (and it makes for a very nice museum - I visited last year). BTW, nearly the entire aircraft collection is in flyable condition. For a while they'd fly one or two of the aircraft every summer weekend weather permitting (I'd often see them overfly my house near Paine Field), but my understand is they now limit flying to designated 'fly' weekends.