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Title: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Gustav on June 25, 2013, 04:49:43 PM: 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.)
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Fud on June 25, 2013, 05:04:27 PM: Sad....that's about 35 40 miles from me. :cry
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: whiteman on June 25, 2013, 05:09:05 PM: saw a JU52, is there more photos I'm missing?
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Gustav on June 25, 2013, 05:46:07 PM: 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. :headscratch: Anyone know what planes were in this guy's collection besides the B17 and 190 that have been sold?
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: TopGear on June 25, 2013, 07:26:36 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Bodhi on June 25, 2013, 08:04:54 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: zack1234 on June 26, 2013, 01:45:48 AM: Its a ruse to get people to donate coin to keep HIS collection with donations from the public :old:

He is not short of coin at all :old:

How much should I send him?
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: curry1 on June 26, 2013, 03:03:16 AM: God darnit so I bought an overpriced t-shirt there for nothing? :mad:
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Gustav on June 26, 2013, 08:23:03 AM: Thanks for the link TopGear, Oddly enough the website wasn't working last night for me. :headscratch:

That is a nice collection of planes, however.
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: cpxxx on June 26, 2013, 10:58:36 AM: 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. :x
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: cpxxx on June 26, 2013, 11:09:30 AM: And the Skyraider.
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: zack1234 on June 26, 2013, 01:32:34 PM: I won the euro lottery :old:
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: flight17 on June 26, 2013, 02:32:13 PM: Quote from: Bodhi on June 25, 2013, 08:04:54 PM
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
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Golfer on June 26, 2013, 02:55:59 PM: Embezzlement is a beyotch.

I guess the B-17 and 190 are going one place, the Corsair and Mosquito to Mr Lewis.
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: Fud on July 01, 2013, 12:11:28 PM: New info everyone!
http://hamptonroads.com/2013/06/va-beach-aviation-museum-owner-were-fine-now :rock
Title: Re: Virginia man selling airplane collection.
Post by: icepac on July 01, 2013, 02:35:03 PM: The guys on the AAFO forums who are reno racers are involved with snapping a large amount of those planes.