I had mentioned, in passing, on the 'Wg Cdr Gill' thread, a silly old fart at my local airport who, back then, was considered by the 'Cessna Crowd'
to be a bit of an eccentric junk collector.
Amongst his collection of 'junk' was a complete and original Me109G as well as a similarly original Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar', a brace of Spitfire Mk.VIIIs,
two DC2s, a Lockheed 10A, a couple Ansons and, so the list went on.
He was continually being hassled to move his junk and make room for more useful stuff.
Both Spits (for example) are currently flying (one in UK and the other in Oz) and the Messerschmitt and Oscar are in our national museum, considered too valuable
to be let out from under cover, let alone fly.
As is so often the case, he died close to penniless but, thankfully, solely due to that 'silly old fart', those machines are still with us today.
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Last edited by Stanwell; 19th Jul 2016 at 13:48.