Hasn’t the precedent been set with Private Museums in Australia such as Fighter world and Darwin having Mirages? I know they got those 20 years ago, but when they went to museums smaller countries were still using them as front line fighters, so wasn’t putting them in museums back then a greater risk then allowing the F111 to be given to museums now?
They would have to been demilitarised before going to these museums so what was the cost for them and what had to be done? Did they have asbestos in theml? And what about the asbestos in the Bou, how was that handled? Seems to be no problems from both of these aircraft so why is the government making it so hard for the F111 to go to private museums?
Why can private museums in the USA display fighters and bombers from the same era without any problems?