Warbird Information Exchange

Good Afternoon to all,

I would be glad for your feedback about my recent idea. We are in Europe and I would be interested how is it in USA.

We are vintage aircrafts colectors and we are occasionally flying to airshows and fly-ins around the Europe.

Last year I had a desire to contact more airshows and fly-ins, to let them know about us and maybe reach some deals about our air display and getting fuel cost covered for it or other exchange of values.

First of all we needed "Display Authorization Certificate", which wasn't big deal. One just have to prove the he can handle his airplane.

Subsequently I spend descent amount of winter evenings by searching through the internet and creating database of all airshows and fly-ins around the Europe with attention to contact informations included.

I also set up a website and facebook page for our aircrafts. Than I launched email and facebook campaign with our newsletter saying something like:

"As part of our summer journeys with our beautiful aircraft we would love to come to your air show, We are open to became part of your program. In case of your interest we are quite thankful for fuel coverage"

Amount of responses war just incredible and I was really surprised with resultes I've been given.

So the point is, as I have this "database" already, I would love to help similar people with such thing. Target "client" is probably private aircraft owner (maybe warbirds as well). And can cover all things with internet (websites, social sites) and send email campaigns to the air shows.

I've been told that there are already "huge networks of websites and orgainsations doing this sort of thing." But nobody gave me any particular example. Except "The British Air Display Association."

If so, maybe as an individual I can focus on some aspects which "big corporations" can't cover. Individual approach maybe?

Have you got any experience with such a thing? Any advice?

Thank You very much

Libor Smolik

P.S.: my mentioned project is http://Aero145.cz