I haven't any particular affinity to the '117, and I do understand that we can't keep everything. But I HATE to see an aircraft scrapped! At least there are a few examples left for history, so our counterparts in years to come will be able to view them in a museum somewhere. It's a pity the 'preservation movement' wasn't active at the end of WW2; maybe we'd have a Stirling, or a Condor, or a Havoc, for example. (Thst's with the understanding that, following such a devastating conflict, all people wanted to do was get back to 'normality', and didn't give a toss about hardware being preserved, and indeed wanted rid of such machines that caused death and destruction.)
I hadn't realised it was so long ago that the 117 first took its 'first steps'. Time certainly does seem to pass quicker as you get older!