Vintage Aviation News

Ron Alexander’s Legacy Continues

March 11, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Ron Alexander was known among fellow pilots as a “quiet giant” of aviation, he died Nov 17, 2016 in a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft crash near his Peach State Aerodrome home field in Williamson, Georgia. […]

EAA’s B-17 ‘Aluminum Overcast’ Begins 2021 National Tour In March

March 10, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – The Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17 Flying Fortress Aluminum Overcast will return to a full national tour in 2021 after being sidelined for nearly all of 2020 due to the COVID pandemic. The […]

RNZAF Museum’s Canberra WT346 Arrives at Her New Home

March 10, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Back in November 2020, the Air Force Museum of New Zealand‘s Trust Board signed an agreement with the NZ Warbirds Association Inc. at Ardmore, for the loan of ex-RAF English Electric Canberra B(I)8 WT346. Part of […]

Castle Air Museum Adds Grumman A-6E Intruder

March 9, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Following the recent announcement about the acquisition of the F-117 Nighthawk, the Castle Air Museum in Atwater,CA had a significant aircraft arrive on Friday, March 5th. The aircraft is a Grumman A-6E Intruder and is the […]

Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum to Receive F-117 Nighthawk

March 8, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

For the first time in 15 years, the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum will welcome a new aircraft to its collection. An F-117 “Nighthawk” stealth bomber (s/n (85-0831) will arrive at the Museum in […]

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Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’ – Restoration Update 135

March 8, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

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. […]

From One Hornet to Another

March 4, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

While this news is a little old, we thought our readers would enjoy hearing details about the recent addition to the National Naval Aviation Museum. In the year of COVID-19, air show crowds around the […]

Pima Adds a Swiss Mirage IIIRS to Their Collection

March 4, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Pima Air and Space Museum, near Tucson, Arizona, took delivery of a former Swiss Air Force Dassault Mirage IIIRS on February 22nd. The museum acquired this jet from Piet Smedts Aero, a Dutch company […]

Samaritan’s Purse Douglas DC-8 Attending Oshkosh 2021

March 3, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – The Samaritan’s Purse Douglas DC-8, which has flown medical personnel and other relief workers, as well as tons of food, medicine, and supplies to aid victims of natural disasters, war, famine, and […]

Lufthansa Lockheed Starliner Moves to Paderborn Airport in Germany

March 3, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

After our most recent report from Constellation connoisseur Ralph Pettersen concerning the status of President Eisenhower’s executive VC-121 Constellation transport, Columbine II, presently under rebuild with Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater, Virginia, a number of questions […]

Year: 2021