That company I was describing I no longer work for. The company I work for now and the first company I worked for has good trustworthy maintenance, and a management that never asked or expected me to operate their aircraft in any illegal or unsafe manner, and did so without an SMS. Unfortunately the third one had questionable maintenance that took several years before the FAA took any action. That company finally went under.
Definitely some questionable things going on with Collings Foundation. If the maintenance logbook entries were in error then what else is? Since it took a fatal accident for the FAA to act it makes me wonder what good an SMS would have done.