Originally Posted by
DHfan
The museum isn't suggesting it's not sustainable.
I can easily believe that it might not be, but there's no mention of it in their statement.
If you choose to have an operation based at a Civil Airport (as opposed to a disused airfield) the costs are always going to be against you for obvious reasons. When the CAF honeymoon period finished (that hangar is now a non aviation store) it also lost a large part of its attraction value which was not helped by having to relocate to a less accessible site that also is inside an airport security area. OK if the costs are nil to low, but in todays world where a Council is tasked to cover costs with (any income) storage space on an airfield becomes a valuable asset in difficult times. The actual costs of running a licenced Airport are eye watering, and just the security, fire service, and ATC make it almost impossible to recover the charges from the travelling public, and that is before you have to enough money to pay for the Radar, Runway, and ILS ongoing costs. Cornwall Council (like many others) have to balance the books to provide essential services, and even leisure/fitness centre's were under threat for a while.