Given that the mandate of this museum is to " Preserve and Maintain " and to restore the aircraft to "certified flying condition " we are not about to spend money to restore a german aircraft , not as long as we have any planes in the hanger that are not yet in flying condition.

There are other aircraft museums in Canada that do have enemy planes in their collections , so if people want to see a 109 or a Stuka, they can go there. The National War Museum in Ottawa, only open for 3 years now, has a very extensive collection of not only WW2 Axis armour, artillery and aircraft, but lots of other time periods as well, such as WW1, Korea and Cold War era Soviet stuff, and items from all of our numerous UN assignments.

When the first four "founders " of this museum began the collection, in the 1970's, with their own 4 WW2 privately owned aircraft , they set the standard for the present collection. Imagine having a 200,000 square foot building that was designed especially for this museum's collection, that is located right on a International airport. We can open the two sets of hanger doors, roll out our planes and start up the engines, and proceed directly to the taxi way and out onto the runways of the airport, and take off. And any private aircraft owner can "fly in " to visit us at the museum, and park their plane on our apron, next to our hanger.

Jim Bunting. Toronto.