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They might well run the tanks near the lake, at least once a year they do an interactive exhibit (I went to it once, it is pretty well done) of some small unit tactics, demonstrated by uniformed (German and American) re-enactors, some in tracked vehicles like a halftrack, they use blank ammunition, fire machine guns, Thompsons, grease guns, MG42, etc. It is pretty well done.

If they had a running tank, I bet they would use it, but again, this a once a year thing.

They usually fly an AT6 (( think) that they sell rides in on Father’s Day from their grass airstrip, and I certainly don’t think they could fly a B-25 and definitely not a B-24 in or out of there. (I think they could do a B-25 in a pinch if it were an emergency to land, but not routinely...though I could be wrong about this.)

They have a large number of antique cars in spectacular eat-off-the-engine-block kind of shape, and I think at least one of a kind that was worth three million dollars (can’t remember what it was)

They have a big collection displayed of race cars of various types and technologies, and there are a few planes there too. I think they had a flyable Yak-6 (I think) there, an Avenger, etc, and I seem to recall a German plane in the process of being restored)

It is one of those places that looks like it has absolutely no security, but you know there is a LOT of electronic security hidden away.

It is a very cool facility, but so obscure and unpretentious that you wouldn’t know what it was. They have a small sign on a narrow road that is probably 2 ft by 3 ft that looks like it could be a small restaurant sign (a few years back I saw it)

When they say it isn’t “educational”, it is no less educational than the Smithsonian. Given the political bent of the Smithsonian these days, I am sure they probably provide LGTB/Homosexual “context” to exhibits like the Enola Gay that Collings likely doesn’t.

Horse hooey to all this. This is liberalism and small town NIMBY/Anti-Military politics at play here, in my opinion.