Originally Posted by
Tiger_mate
The Air Show picks up the bill and as an organisation they are both insured against total loss and sit on nest eggs sufficiently large to cope.
For an organisation such as Finningley/Waddington/Leuchars they usually held back a portion of takings as nest eggs as you say. For a new venue, Waddington/Coningsby the issue was to raise as much revenue for charity through minimizing costs and creative accounting. Insurance, if any, was minimal.
Fuel was often diverted. We had a P51 that arrived with empty drops, refuelled, did a display somewhere else, returned, dropped the tanks, displayed, and then refitted tanks and departed full.
I refused John Watt's Catalina for the same reason - arrive empty, depart full.
My staish also flatly refused to pay Binbrook for T&S, the Reds and Falcons for smokes and refused free entry to their families. TB!