CAPFlyer wrote:
Mike wrote:
How does that statement tie in with them selling an active P-47 with plenty of Heritage Flight commitments each year to sit parked in a shed in the back end of nowhere?
Well considering it hasn't actually been sold yet, that's a pretty crass statement, even for someone on this forum. As for it being "parked in a shed in the back end of nowhere", I don't consider Evansville, IN, to exactly be a fit for that, especially considering it's literally the city where Tarheel Hal was built.
Maybe before you go and defame a group, you might want to do even basic research?
https://www.evansvillewartimemuseum.org/What was crass about it?
Mike's comment was pretty fare and accurate. Selling an airworthy P-47 to become a static exhibit does not tie in with the statement of LSFM as stated.
Trying to make out it hasn't been sold yet is pretty lame semantics in the situation, as its quite clear on their website (which you even linked to provide basic research
) that they entered in a sale agreement having already raised over a million dollars for its purchase, but still need to raise 800k to keep it there.
Are LSFM going to take it back in a couple of years time if they can't then? Is it going to be kept airworthy in that period of time in case they can't so it can be flown out to somewhere else or a new owner?
Of course not.
Congrats to Evansville Museum for getting what they wanted, its not their fault, but it a crying shame to see an airworthy aircraft be grounded to became a museum exhibit.
And $1.75m seems remarkably cheap for an rare airworthy Jug...or is that the going rate for P-47's these days?