Save Aviation Museum - Sign Petition

[Fly4five]

Hey guys if you get the chance let's try to save a piece of aviation history.

 

This is for the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum out of San Diego:

 

http://chng.it/TBDPBZQNcc

 

https://flyingleathernecks.org/

 

Edit: Sorry posted earlier in wrong thread

 

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[HuggyU2]

What a mistake by the Corps.  Their "leadership" is either unaware... or simply has become a den of bureaucrats. 

[gimmeaplane]

That's a shame.  2 options if losing the current digs:

1) Move it to China Lake.  They have a small museum and cheap real estate, more stuff = more foot traffic.

2) Move it to EDW.  Same story, minus the service tie-in.

[go_cubbies22]

1 hour ago, HuggyU2 said:

What a mistake by the Corps.  Their "leadership" is either unaware... or simply has become a den of bureaucrats. 

Sadly it appears to be a deliberate decision made by the base CO due to budget constraints.  Hopefully they can figure out a way to keep it open.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/military/mcas-miramars-flying-leatherneck-aviation-museum-to-permanently-close/2532618/%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0NvH5I64X0GTryFJrts4U5UwV6slv8-FIgRO9MT8sc8gNddr8IHdcg5i4%26amp

According to MCAS Miramar director of communications Capt. Matt Gregory, the base's commanding officer, Col. Charles Dockery, decided to close the museum due to budgetary constraints.

"Over the past 10 to 15 years, we’ve tried various different strategies to align all those rules, regulations, and get that into a coherent strategy for the museum to move forward, and we were just never able to get there," Dockery said. 

"The air station annually pays over $400,000 to the museum’s salaries and operations, and that money is now being planned for reallocation toward higher-priority missions -- breathing apparatus equipment for flight-line firefighters and rescue, for example," Gregory said.