Warbirds News
D-Day – A Commemoration
Today is the 71st anniversary of D-Day. It is nearly impossible for any of us to imagine what those brave boys went through on that day all those years ago as they journeyed into the […]
Year: 2015
Aviation Museum News
Neglected B-25 to Resettle in Australia
For more than a decade, a forlorn B-25J Mitchell 44-31508 has sat more or less abandoned and exposed to nature at an airfield in Franklin, Virginia. Many have tried in vain to do something positive to […]
Press Releases
Naval District Washington Honors Battle of Midway Anniversary
PRESS RELEASE – Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and World War II veterans gathered at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway during a wreath laying […]
Warbird Restorations
Help Save the C-47 that Led D-Day Invasion
PRESS RELEASE – The transport aircraft that led the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France more than 70 years ago has been rediscovered in an aircraft boneyard in Wisconsin. Believed lost to history, the airplane was […]
Warbird Restorations
XP-82 Twin Mustang – May, 2015 – Restoration Update
WarbirdsNews has received the latest XP-82 Twin Mustang restoration update from Tom Reilly at his workshop in Douglas, Georgia. Here’s what they’ve been up to this month! Center Section Two team members completed the last […]
Aviation Museum News
Museum’s PT-13D Restoration Selected for Air Force Heritage Award
PRESS RELEASE -The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force was recently selected by the U.S. Air Force History and Museums Program as a recipient of the 2015 Air Force Heritage Award for the restoration […]
Warbirds News
CAF Red Tail Squadron Releases 2015 Summer and Fall Event Schedule
PRESS RELEASE Minneapolis, Minn. – June 1, 2015 – The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Red Tail Squadron, America’s tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, today announced the summer and fall event schedule for their RISE ABOVE […]
Press Releases
Tyndall QF-4 Phantom Final Mission
PRESS RELEASE _ TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron, a subordinate unit of the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, flew its final QF-4 Phantom mission May 27 marking the end of almost […]
Aviation Museum News
Work Underway to Move Lancaster KB882 to Edmonton
Since announcing in late March that Avro Lancaster KB882 will be moving from its home of half a century in Edmundston, New Brunswick to the Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton, Alberta, a team has been […]
Press Releases
CH-46 Sea Knight Retirement Ceremony at Smithsonian
With the CH-46 Sea Knight finally bowing out of service later this year, the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum is set to receive an example on temporary loan from the United States Marine Corps […]