Good line of thought, John - and limitations are realized, most of us face something like that. I'd like to say that's in my part of the country - but it's as far for me as Washington D.C. would be, so not an easy weekend jaunt.
Monty takes it pretty seriously - and I happen to know that while he won't brag about it, has many times put his money where his mouth was and is, and generously.
Monty also has experience with getting boots to march for us in remote places - maybe can share a thought or two on how we might do that, and then maybe we can find a way to kick in resources to help it happen? Maybe we can get more traction with correspondence with someone in the historic arena there, just a thought. Before we launch anything I'd be eager to see what the latest round of pictures found in Miami yield (and thanks, Monty).
It still seems to me that the number one way to 'proof', if 2-2-V-1 is to ever be proven to have Earhart provenance without the airplane, is good photographic evidence.
Short of that we'll always be playing against a set of odds that will still include all the unknowables, and some things that might yet prove knowable and disqualifying, like fonts, etc.
But one great picture would be worth millions of words, if it is out there and can be had.