[PLMerite]

"I thought it was about preserving and taking care of things it is responsible for, not throwing things in a closet to rot."

They've finally taken the Ho229 out of storage and started to restore it:

I hope to live long enough to see it when it's done.

[Rockpile]

I suspect the Horten Brothers were familiar with Vincent Burnelli.

[tanknetter]

They aren’t restoring the 229, they’re doing a sympathetic conservation/preservation to arrest deterioration. The aircraft (which was never finished) is too far gone to be restored, and even then it would still be very much hypothetical given it was still a work in progress when the war ended.

The only plane in the NASM shop that has a date (and a loose one at that) for being rolled out for display is the B-26 Flak Bait. They’re hoping for 2020, but are finding a lot more corrosion than expected. Flak Baits getting the conservation treatment as well - she still wears her original paint and carries what are believed to be the only original DDay stripes in existance.