Two great personalities -- Walter Soplata, who saved a lot of airplanes from being turned into aluminum cans, and, of course, Tom Reilly is a legend in the world warbirds.
There's still quite a few aircraft on the Soplata Farm. Collectors are circling like vultures waiting for the day they are put up for sale. Walter was always pretty secretive and didn't want people on his farm or even knowing exactly what he had. Not too far away from Soplata was another collector who took an opposite approach, Leon Cleaver. Cleaver was kind of a "Walter Soplata Light". The difference was he kept his collection in plain sight and had no qualms with letting visitors come see what he had. As he got older, he decided to start clearing his collection while he still had the ability and faculties to do so. Leon eventually sold off his entire collection.