Vintage Aviation News

Good News for the Yankee Air Museum: Purchase Agreement In the Works

April 30, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

With a huge sigh of relief, WarbirdsNews can report that the Yankee Air Museum appears to have been successful in acquiring part of the Willow Run Bomber plant for their new home. Museum officials stated […]

Annual Antique Auto Show at the New England Air Museum on Sunday, June 1st

April 30, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Press Release: The New England Air Museum will hold its annual Antique Auto Show on Sunday, June 1st. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Council of Car Clubs, this will be one of the larger auto shows […]

“Cycle to the Sky” in Support of Vulcan XH558

April 30, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

WarbirdsNews believes in doing what it can to help promote events and objectives which support the continued preservation or celebration of vintage aircraft and stories of the people surrounding them. As such we will try […]

CAF Chooses DALLAS!

April 29, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 8

Update: 4/30/2014: Now with additional photographs The Commemorative Air Force announced just moments ago, after a year-long study, that they have selected the city of Dallas, Texas for their National Air Base. Their new headquarters […]

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B-17G “Chuckie” To Become “Madras Maiden”

April 28, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 16

“Nothing stays the same for ever”, as the saying goes, and the time has come for the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress known as “Chuckie” for over three decades to receive a new name. She will […]

WWII Aviation Cadet Fantasy Camp

April 27, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 6

Have you ever wanted to have a taste of what it was like to be an air cadet during WWII? Well then, your dreams have been answered, as the Utah Wing of the Commemorative Air […]

Warbirds Over Wanaka – Jet Race Report

April 26, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Easter weekend saw another brilliant episode of the biennial Warbirds Over Wanaka air show in Wanaka, New Zealand. Each of these events, set against the magnificent mountainous landscape made famous in the Lord of the […]

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P-3C Joins Naval Air Museum Barbers Point

April 25, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

A Lockheed P-3C Orion arrived at Kalaeloa Airport in Hawaii on March 28th, destined for the Barbers Point Naval Air Museum. Bu.no 160770 was based locally with Patrol Wing 2, and represented the unit during the Naval […]

Doug Keeney’s ‘Lost In The Pacific’ – A Conversation With the Author.

April 24, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

L. Douglas Keeney is the well-known author of over a dozen books on US history, and has just completed a book on WWII air-sea rescue missions. However, it isn’t the book he originally intended to […]

Trojan Phlyers to Fly at Air Power Expo – NAS Fort Worth JRB April 26/27th

April 23, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE- Based south of Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas, the Trojan Phlyers Demonstration Team is gearing up for their exciting performance in the first air show NAS JRB Fort Worth has had in several […]

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