The one that gets me on the list is the
- SA Jetstream T.1 XX496 Relevance/Environment
Environment is possibly because it is parked outside.......... except it used to be parked inside but was shuffled outside to form a corporate entertaining area ( along with the Catalina ) to allow the running of corporate fund raisers.
It always struck me as a self licking lollipop, you build an entertainment area to raise funding for the preservation of the aircraft in the museum, but in doing so you put the said aircraft outside subject to the environment, which brings forward the need to carry out preservation work on the aircraft earlier due to the fact they are no longer in a stable safe internal environment. Hence the funding raised is offset against the increase costing of looking after the said aircraft.
The priority should be to the aircraft in the museum and those that they cannot look after properly should be used as exchanges for those that are more “relevant”