Originally Posted by
Less Hair
He has a nice airport. It would be great to have a bigger museum there.
I hope they build well, given its pretty much centre of tornado alley!
We don't yet know what the ownership structure is though, as while Steuart Walton is the name being branded about because of his ownership of 2 x P51's and a Corsair, he personally doesn't have the wealth to have bought it without money coming from his father (and or other members of the Walton family).
Steuart Walton isn't the boss of Walmart either, although he is a director, and he doesn't even appear on the Forbes rich list (only worth about $300m) unlike his father Jim that is the richest of the Walton family and one of the 20 richest people in the world, worth some $66bn.
The rumour is the entire collection sold for a 9 figure sum, so clearly he's not in a personal position to buy it, but was probably the person involved in the purchase on behalf of the family or more likely the chartible organisation set up by the family to buy and run the collection.