Turning this on its head, I think it's a shame that so many historic British light aircraft are mouldering in museums or museum stores when they could and should be where they belong — in the air. Since you mention East Fortune, Pilotage, wouldn't it be so much better to see the GAL Cygnet, Miles Monarch and the now unique Miles M.18-2 aloft again? There are people out there with the technical and financial ability to make it happen. But for me it is near criminal that the RAF Museum still sits on — and does nothing with — the Miles Hawk Major G-ADMW and is to relegate the ex-Lindberg Miles Mohawk to static display when neither aircraft has more than the most tenuous connection with the RAF. Again, there are restorers/would-be owners out there (some not unknown to these threads) who would love to be given the opportunity to rescue them from ground-borne oblivion. The point has been well made here previously that these kinds of aeroplanes are not going to pull in the non-enthusiast public and generate the income that museums need, so let's have them flying again in the hands of sympathetic operators.