The Historic Aircraft Committee should certainly not be allowed to make the decision after the Beverley/B(I)8/Insert favoured cock-up here.
But the "Great British Public" making the decision?
Genuine BoB Hurri exchanged for late war Hurri with less interesting history (and which may be entirely new build, apart from the dataplate and a few parts), but which is more interesting to India?
Isn't that quite a good deal?