Ah Opssys, another lover of the Sealand. There's one surviving at a museum in Ireland (less wings) and there was one in Yugoslavia somewhere as well, though whether it survived the fighting over there...
Back to dataplates...
Remember The Tiger Club's celebrated "oldest DH-82A" G-ACDC. I believe all the wings, the tail and the fuselage were replaced by Rollasons at one time or another - it suffered a number of serious accidents in the 1960s, worst of which saw the old heap, er, dear, rolled practically into a ball by Neville Browning during a crazy flying mishap! And yet it flies one today - the very personification of Grand-dad's axe!
I think that so long as the provenance of the rebuilds doesn't try to pass them off as 100% original and details the rebuild (and I think those doen by Historic Flying, the IOW team, etc, are well documented in how much has been done) then there should be no problem. For me the chance to see several dozen of these beauties in the air at once is spine tingling indeed!
Cheers
Treadders
(PS can I have a go in the Sealand when you get one flying Opssys?)
