Great post and the photo of the cockpit is pure Ernest K. Gann nostalgia while the shot of the M3W with the Dakota flatters both machines. It's good work that you are doing with the restoration. Even if it doesn't fly again it will allow people to get close up. So often the flying ones aren't accessible because of rules and because they need to earn a living. There are still a couple of DC3s at Coventry airport - kept airworthy and on standby for oil spill work. And as someone pointed out, unfortunately bureaucracy has stuffed the possibility of using them for charter and scenic flights. Hope to call in on your museum one day.
Graham, Coventry is definitely worth a visit but you really need someone who can get you into the interesting hangars. Having said that the Midlands Air Museum is open to the public and when I was there with the Auster club in March we had a cockpit tour of their Vulcan. A humbling experience when one thinks of the Falklands mission. It's a big plane with a cramped cockpit.
