My uncle and I go to this vintage flying museum, more like a hangar actually, but any way the guy who owns this museum is a WWII veteran, and awhile back he bought all the old soon to be scrapped WWII, and other older aircraft, and took the parts to his hangar to what is now his museum.
My uncle and I along with about 7 other volunteers get to restore these wonderful pieces of history to flying condition, where they will tour on air shows.
Right now we are working on a b-17 named "chuckie". It is one of only 7 flying b-17s.
Other notable aircraft at the hangar are a b-25, f-86, f-14,f-4,a-7,f-105,f-104,and many other aircraft. He also probably owns enough b-17 parts to make three more.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that to
give you guys an idea that there is a glimmer of hope for these aircraft, it's just going to take manpower and love for these aircraft to bring them back.