Vintage Aviation News

B-25 Snapshot #5 -Yankee Warrior

March 30, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

e-publications republished with the permission of the B-25 ASSOCIATION This picture was taken by Bruce K Stoddart , B-25 “Yankee Warrior,” Crew Member,during September, 2012 as the crew was getting ready to depart Willow Run […]

Photo Restoration

March 30, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Great photo restoration work from our friend Leo Determann who is a professional graphic artist.

Yankee Air Museum Makes Tough Decisions

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

Three vintage aircraft are scheduled to be scrapped by the Yankee Air Museum of Belleville, Michigan: A Douglas DC-6B, a Grumman A-6A Intruder and an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy AW.650. The museum, founded in 1981 suffered […]

MiG to go on Display at the Palm Springs Air Museum

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Palm Springs Air Museum (PSAM) has added a recently-acquired Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F 1112, a former Czechoslovakian Air Force plane, to its collection on display. The plane was brought to the United States by a Czech […]

Classic Air Force Museum in Cornwall, UK Opens Today

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

As we reported earlier, the Classic Air Force Museum, based at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, United Kingdom opens today, March 29, 2013. In celebration of the grand opening the museum is waiving all admission fees […]

Spitfire with a Racing History Makes Progress in Restoration

March 28, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI P1983, registration G-PRXI, has recently emerged from the paint shop of Historic Flying Ltd. in Duxford, United Kingdom. Sporting a new paint scheme, the Spitfire now wears the wartime photo reconnaissance blue […]

B-25 Showcase #4 – Greg Witmer’s 2012 TICO B-25 Slideshow

March 28, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

e-publications republished with the permission of the B-25 ASSOCIATION In this issue of B-25 SHOWCASE, we have something very special to share with our members that all of you will truly enjoy. If you are […]

Cleveland’s U.S. Aviation Museum In The Process Of Restoring Vintage Boeing B-29 Superfortress

March 28, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

A group named “Doc’s Friends” has recently taken ownership of the 25-year project to restore a Boeing Superfortress bomber. The organization takes its name from the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs character, whose countenance […]

Today In Aviation History: March 27,1936

March 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Fokker D.XXI took to the sky for the first time on March 27, 1936. It was a relatively inexpensive and highly maneuverable fighter; a low-wing monoplane with steel tube fuselage and wooden cantilevered wings. […]

Rare Flying Bomb Completes Restoration

March 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Lashenden Air Warfare Museum’s extremely rare Fieseler Fi 103R-IV Reichenberg, which was essentially a piloted version of the V-1 flying bomb, recently completed a five year restoration by Auktionshaus fur historic Technik in Geisenhausen, […]

Year: 2013