Vintage Aviation News

Obie O’Brien Heritage Flight

October 28, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 1

HONORING OBIE By Stephen Chapis In February 2021, the Ocala, Florida-based American Honor Foundation (AHF) added Vought F4U-4 Corsair BuNo 97359 for their collection. As many readers know, this aircraft is one of the more […]

Sea Harrier FA.2 Taxiing Under Its Own Power in the UK

October 27, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

The internet was abuzz a couple of weeks ago with a video featuring a former Royal Navy BAe Sea Harrier taxiing around an airfield under its own power. While witnessing such a scene would not […]

Curtiss P-40E Warhawk Restoration Complete in New Zealand

October 26, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

It has been just over a year since our last report on restoration progress with Claudio Coltri’s combat-veteran Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (41-13570), which has been under rebuild at Pioneer Aero Ltd. in Ardmore, New Zealand […]

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Today in Aviation History – Jimmy Doolittle Wins The Schneider Trophy

October 26, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 26, 1925, Lieutenant James Harold Doolittle, Air Service, United States Army, won the Coupe d’Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy) when […]

Museum of Flight Is First to Exhibit Full-Scale Mock-ups of NASA Mars Rover

October 25, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – On October 30, The Museum of Flight will be the first site to exhibit NASA’s full-scale replicas of the Agency’s newest robotic explorers on Mars—the rover and helicopter, Perseverance and Ingenuity. The […]

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 Advance Tickets Now on Sale

October 25, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – Weekly and daily admission tickets for the 69th edition of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in convention, are now available online for the event at Wittman Regional Airport in […]

GHOSTS – Phil Makanna’s Legendary Warbird Calendars are Back!

October 25, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

by Richard Mallory Allnutt For the past forty-some years, it is doubtful that anyone with even the vaguest interest in vintage military aircraft could fail to have seen or been moved by the work of […]

Desert Storm F/A-18 MiG Killer Unveiled

October 22, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

The National Naval Aviation Museum has just unveiled their recently-restored, combat-veteran F/A-18C Hornet (BuNo.163508) in a place of honor just outside the Blue Angel Atrium at their main campus in Pensacola, Florida. This Hornet is […]

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Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’ – Restoration Update 151

October 21, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

As many of our readers will be well aware, Avro Lancaster B.VII NX611 Just Jane is under restoration to airworthy condition with the Lincoln Aviation Heritage Center at former RAF East Kirkby in Lincolnshire, England. […]

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Today in Aviation History – First Flight of The Bell Model 204

October 20, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 20, 1956, Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the […]

Warbird Restorations

Scott Thompson’s B-17 Updates From Madras

Scott Thompson of AeroVintage recently shared an update on the AeroVintage website about two of the three B-17s currently at Madras, Oregon, with the Erickson Aircraft Collection. The post highlights ongoing wing restoration work on one aircraft and the start of disassembly on another. […]

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