Great to hear you enjoyed your visit. We are very proud of our Shackleton (and knowledgeable, experienced guides!). The Shackleton has been recently repainted by volunteers, and is looking better than ever. It is normally open for guided tours, but we can't always guarantee it will be open, as it needs a lot of maintenance, and an available guide - as it is a 'live' (engines working!) aircraft. We review our collection quite often, and are a bit limited by how many aircraft we can keep on our small site. Rather than keeping a lot of aircraft, our volunteers work to maintain all the ones we do have to a high standard - both mechanically and to look at. Restoring our Lightning to be able to run its engines this year is a great example of this! We would like better public transport - we are the other side of Gatwick from the passenger terminals, but can be reached by public bus to the village of Charlwood.