I believe the AIII's are to be retired next month.
(Just saw one flying over my place an hour ago actually ... it will be a sight and sound that will be missed in our skies!)
Anyhow, I read over on IMO that only '212' (the one in the museum) is to be retained for preservation?!?
Would it not be a fitting tribute - to all the years of service to the Air Corps AND to the country - to keep another AIII as an airworthy example to be part of an 'Historic Flight' to go along with the (soon-to-arrive??) Avro Cadet ?!
They can't be worth that much in monetary terms anyway, so retaining an airworthy example would'nt make much of a dent in the finances of the DoD. (I read that the Swiss have been trying to sell some of their AIII for ages without success)