Thank you for responding. Unfortunately his entire family and executor live in a different states so it makes it extremely difficult to sell these items individualy. Because of his job he didn't get much flight time with his collection, he did that at work.
most of the planes he bought used. He sought them out because they were no longer made or hard to find. When I was there helping him in the spring I commented about the old/worn out planes. He had his son and me take a couple of pics of a couple planes and engines and post them here. I couldn't believe it, guys were responding within 10 minutes. The one engine I shipped for him that afternoon and a guy drove out and picked up 2 planes the next day. The 3 items he sold for $9k,he laughed at me for my comment about worn out planes
One of the people who had contacted us about one of the planes told my nephew about a couple of guys out of Texas who buy collections, unfortunately my nephew no longer has his number to attempt to contact these "Pickers" so I thought I would give it a shot here. We know doing it that way they won't get full value but they wouldn't be sitting on them for years.
Thank you again!