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Re: Santa Monica Museum of Flying - Japanese collection
Posted by Elliott on Mon May 13, 2002 10:46:18 AM
In reply top Re: Santa Monica Museum of Flying - Japanese collection posted by Mikael Olrog on Mon May 13, 2002 07:12:00 AM
Hi Mikael
Do you know where they got the Frances from? I had never heard of that one?!
Elliott
: 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 followin
: g
: : as contributing factors: David Price's business problems
: ,
: : including the problems he has had trying to merge two Go
: lf
: : companies and the conflict of interest charges that are
: p
: : resently being mentioned with that situation, the compan
: ie
: : s' money losing status, Price's recent divorce... Sept 1
: 1
: : and the downturn in the US tourism industry that has see
: n
: : the museum pull back to weekend only hours. Price has pr
: op
: : ped this thing up from the beginning 13 years ago and it
: p
: : robably has never made a lot of money . Saw in Pacific F
: ly
: : er that it's possible all the airplanes will end up at M
: oj
: : ave for the time being and perhaps being open for viewin
: g
: : there... However everything is for sale and I don't expe
: ct
: : to see Price in the warbird world much longer, But we u
: se
: : d to say that about Tallichet when he was having busines
: s
: : problems and he is still flying around in that B-17. It'
: s
: : a shame too, with that excellent Shafter warbirds show a
: nd
: : 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 informatio
: n
: : 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?