Virginia man selling airplane collection.

[Gustav]

I caught this on the news last night. I am kind of saddened as I never knew about this museum that may be closing as well. Also according to 13 News its one of the larger collections of WWI/WWII aircraft in the world.

http://www.wvec.com/my-city/vabeach/Owner-of-Miltary-Aviation-Museum-to-sell-vintage-plane-collection-212853081.html

(That JU87 pictured in the article is quite pretty, however.)

[Fud]

Sad....that's about 35 40 miles from me. 

[whiteman]

saw a JU52, is there more photos I'm missing?

[Gustav]

the WVEC (13 News) site shows the museum and the JU52. I can't seem to find images of the other planes in the collection in any other articles online. Anyone know what planes were in this guy's collection besides the B17 and 190 that have been sold?

[TopGear]

http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/ww2-aircraft.html

Would be a very impressive place to see, hopefully it all goes to places that it can still be appreciated by the general public.

On a side note, I was reading their spring newsletter. Did anyone happen to make it to the warbirds over the beach?  Had a 262 planned on doing flybys, that would be neat to see.

[Bodhi]

Sad to hear.  They have a very nice collection.  Wonder if he will keep his Mosquito?

Now I feel a bit vindicated that I did not take a job offer there.

[zack1234]

Its a ruse to get people to donate coin to keep HIS collection with donations from the public

He is not short of coin at all

How much should I send him?

[curry1]

God darnit so I bought an overpriced t-shirt there for nothing? 

[Gustav]

Thanks for the link TopGear, Oddly enough the website wasn't working last night for me.

That is a nice collection of planes, however.

[cpxxx]

Seems odd. Maybe it's a ploy to encourage funding?

But if I was the person here in Ireland who just won $122 million dollars, tax free in the Eurolotto. I would be bidding on the following: The Corsair, Mosquito, Spit, Hurricane and maybe a couple of the trainers so I can get checked out on warbirds. I would also buy the local airport to house them all. That should take care of $20m. The rest of the money I'd waste.

[cpxxx]

And the Skyraider.

[zack1234]

I won the euro lottery

[flight17]

Sad to hear.  They have a very nice collection.  Wonder if he will keep his Mosquito?

Now I feel a bit vindicated that I did not take a job offer there.

Nope, he has already sold it all to one person from what i have been reading. The owner of Rare Bear and others, Rod Lewis.

However, it has not been confirmed, so it might not be 100% true.

Here is the big disscussion going on over at the Warbird information exchange.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=50076

[Golfer]

Embezzlement is a beyotch.

I guess the B-17 and 190 are going one place, the Corsair and Mosquito to Mr Lewis.

[Fud]

New info everyone! 
http://hamptonroads.com/2013/06/va-beach-aviation-museum-owner-were-fine-now