Can anyone help with airport preservation?

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My local airport still has original facilities dating back to 1929. The buildings were a site of an aviation museum for several years, but the buildings are in disrepair and the museum has closed. The fate of these buldings is very threatened. Aiports change constantly over the years and very few buildings are left from the era. I'm looking for anyone who might be interested in helping find support for such a project. This is an awesome opportunity to hang on to an almost century old piece of history. Can you offer any ideas or organizations that might assist?
 
How many friends do you have? Preserving history is a numbers game. Do you have ten friends. Well now you need a hundred friends and each of them must make a hundred friends and all of these friends must share your goal. One of the best ways to go about saving a local landmark is to start a group, call it, Friends of Such & Such Airport and map out and make a mission statement. Though politcians are venal self serving creatures they are important and must be cultivated. Track down the council member for the district, the state senator, everyone in the food chain but be wary, did I mention that politicians are venal self serving creatures (?), they might hijack your project so you must make yourself the likable and indispensible man who no one would ever want to cop a squat upon.
It would also be good to hunt down ownership of the site via the local tax office. Gonna throw a few links at you, you would be best advised to contact various preservation groups for their sage advice.
For what it is worth I feel this is a worthy project and you are to be commended!!
http://www.resourcehelp.com/avi_museum.htm

http://www.neam.org/
http://www.jefro.net/lrapa/history.html
http://www.outerbanks.org/attractions/museums/airport_museum.asp
http://www.stlouisdowntownairport.com/history.htm

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