Vintage Aviation News

Happy Birthday To The Grumman F8F Bearcat

August 21, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC Seventy years ago today, the Grumman F8F Bearcat took flight for the first time. The last of the great piston-engine Grummans, the F8F was one of the best piston fighters ever […]

Collings Foundation Needs Our Help to Sway Planning Board Decision

August 20, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 9

The Collings Foundation needs our help to gain planning permission for a new museum building they wish to construct for housing a major military vehicle collection they just acquired. What follows is their press release, but […]

Three Avro ‘Sisters’ to Make a Unique Appearance at RAF Waddington on Thursday 21st August

August 19, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – An historic and never-to-be-repeated event will take place at RAF Waddington on Thursday 21st August when three world-famous aircraft from the Avro stable the Avro ‘sisters’ – Vulcan XH558, the Battle of […]

CAF SLOCUM April 2014 Dallas Executive Airport

Commemorative Air Force Announces World War II Air Expo at Dallas Executive Airport

August 19, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 2

PRESS RELEASE – The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is bringing “hands on” history to Dallas this October 3 through 5 when the world’s only flying B-29 Superfortress, FIFI, the famous P-51C Tuskegee Airmen and over a dozen other […]

Australian B-24 Event

August 19, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Many of our readers may have seen the story we published on the Consolidated B-24 Liberator under restoration in Werribee, Australia a few weeks back. As it happens, this aircraft turns seventy years old on […]

Open Cockpit Day at National Australian Aviation Museum

August 19, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

National Australian Aviation Museum 2014 Family Open Cockpit Day – Saturday November 8th, 2014 The National Australian Aviation Museum at Moorabin Airport, near Melbourne, Australia is set to open up a dozen or so of their rare […]

Alfred T. Palmer Assembling the North American B 25 Mitchell at Kansas City Kansas USA

Happy Birthday To The North American B-25 Mitchell

August 19, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

By Aviation Enthusiasts LLC The North American B-25 Mitchell flew for the first time seventy-four years ago today. The twin-engine Mitchell was one of the most fearsome sights of World War II. Bombing from high […]

Collings Foundation – Looking for B-24 Veterans to Interview

August 18, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 3

Two years ago, the Collings Foundation and Tom Harrison (who wrote the book Kassel) tried to produce a documentary film called The Last Liberator. The film would have centered around the flying collection’s B-24J Liberator […]

Delta Flight Museum

August 17, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

WarbirdsNews has recently visited the newly renovated Delta Flight Museum located in the airline’s two original 1940s-era aircraft maintenance hangars at the heart of Delta’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The 68,000 square-foot facility traces Delta’s history, and the development […]

New Acquisition for The Warbirds Of Glory Museum

August 16, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 10

The mortal remains of a previously unknown North American B-25J Mitchell survivor have come to light in Nome, Alaska. The aircraft, 44-28898, was one of many such Mitchells provided to the Soviet Union as part […]

Month: August 2014

Happy Birthday To The Grumman F8F Bearcat

Collings Foundation Needs Our Help to Sway Planning Board Decision

Three Avro ‘Sisters’ to Make a Unique Appearance at RAF Waddington on Thursday 21st August

Commemorative Air Force Announces World War II Air Expo at Dallas Executive Airport

Australian B-24 Event

Open Cockpit Day at National Australian Aviation Museum

Happy Birthday To The North American B-25 Mitchell

Collings Foundation – Looking for B-24 Veterans to Interview

Delta Flight Museum

New Acquisition for The Warbirds Of Glory Museum

Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group Achieves Major Milestone

AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Restoration Report – Fall 2024 Update

Mid America Flight Museum Releases Update on B-17G ‘Thunderbird’

Matt’s Gnat: A Red Arrows Jet Restoration Downunder