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Re: Santa Monica Museum of Flying - Japanese collection

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Mon May 13, 2002 07:12:00 AM

In reply top Re: Santa Monica Museum of Flying posted by JohnH on Mon May 13, 2002 02:41:15 AM

Sad to hear that the collection is for sale.

Does anyone know what happened to the Japanese wrecks that the museum gathered some years ago. Have they been sold, put under restoration or are they still in storage?

I'm thinking of;
P1Y2 Ginga "Frances"
D4Y Suisei "Judy"
Ki-61 Hien "Tony"
A6M Reisen "Zeke" 2 examples reported (apart from c/n 3869 -NX712Z)

Any news and/or photos would be great!
/Mikael

: Hi Rob,
:
: I'm not an insider but you have to consider the following
: as contributing factors: David Price's business problems,
: including the problems he has had trying to merge two Golf
: companies and the conflict of interest charges that are p
: resently being mentioned with that situation, the companie
: s' money losing status, Price's recent divorce... Sept 11
: and the downturn in the US tourism industry that has seen
: the museum pull back to weekend only hours. Price has prop
: ped this thing up from the beginning 13 years ago and it p
: robably has never made a lot of money . Saw in Pacific Fly
: er that it's possible all the airplanes will end up at Moj
: ave for the time being and perhaps being open for viewing
: there... However everything is for sale and I don't expect
: to see Price in the warbird world much longer, But we use
: d to say that about Tallichet when he was having business
: problems and he is still flying around in that B-17. It's
: a shame too, with that excellent Shafter warbirds show and
: next week's Chino, how amazing would it be to have the 10
: 9 attending these shows?
:
: JH
:
:
: : Are there any insiders who can give further information
: ab
: : out the closing of the Santa Monica Museum of Flying? A
: re
: : there any known facts about the fate of the museum's co
: ll
: : ection?

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