Vintage Aviation News

The Dornier Do 17 One Year Later

June 9, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE- Tuesday 10th June 2014 will mark the first anniversary of the moment the world’s last surviving Dornier Do 17 was successfully lifted from the bottom of the Dover Straits. The breath taking moment […]

Discovering the Wreck of Avro Anson L7056 on Vancouver Island

June 9, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 4

WarbirdsNews has been following the discovery of an Avro Anson Mk.I in the dense woodland of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. The aircraft disappeared without trace in October, 1942, taking the lives of her […]

Hundreds of Paratroops Re-Create 1944 D-DAY Airborne Assault

June 8, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

World leaders, including have flocked to France to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in WWII.More than 600 American and allied paratroops jumped onto a field outside this tiny farming town in rural […]

Week of Flying Events at Museum of Flight in Seattle

June 8, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington has just announced a series of flying events at Boeing Field during the week of June 16th through 22nd. The Commemorative Air Force’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress known as […]

B-25 Sandbar Mitchell – May, 2014 Update

June 7, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Progress has started on disassembling the right side of Sandbar Mitchell’s center section. The team has removed both the front and rear main tanks as well as the right engine nacelle along with the hydraulic […]

Hawker Typhoon at Canada Aviation and Space Museum

D-Day Commemoration: RAF Museum WWII Typhoon Now on Display at Canada Aviation and Space Museum

June 6, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

PRESS RELEASE- Visitors to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) now have the rare privilege of admiring a legendary Second World War aircraft – the last remaining of its kind – exactly 70 years […]

D-Day Daks Fly Over France for 70th Anniversary

June 6, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

A small fleet of C-47s gathered in Britain and France over the past few weeks to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings today on June 6th, 2014. The aircraft flew in from […]

70 years on – D-Day is Remembered

June 5, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

June 6th, 2014 will mark 70 years since the invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord, which began the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. In the space of three crucial months in 1944, Britain and its Allies […]

New Livery For the Starfighter Aerospace’s Aircraft

June 5, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 7

During a recent visit to the Starfighter Aerospace facility at the Kennedy Space Center we had the opportunity to photograph the new paint scheme applied to the company’s F-104 Starfighter. Starfighters Aerospace has for some […]

Titan II ICBM on display at the Titan Missile Museum.

NASA and Titan Missile Museum to Send Locals Names Into Space

June 4, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – Sahuarita, Arizona—Jun. 1, 2014. The Titan Missile Museum will help send your name into space during its first of four 2014 cool Saturday summer evening programs, Moonlight MADness. Working with NASA, Titan […]

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