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This Day in Aviation History: Final Commercial Flight of The British Airways Concorde

October 24, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 24, 2003, at 4:05 p.m. BST, the final commercial flight of the British Airways Concorde came to an end with the landing of G-BOAG […]

This Day in Aviation History: First Flight of The YF-102 Delta Dagger

October 24, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 24, 1953, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Richard Lowe Johnson, Chief Test Pilot for the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, took […]

B 17G 44 83718 N900RW last known as Thunderbird

B-17G Flying Fortress ‘Thunderbird’ – Status Update – September/October 2022

October 24, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 1

by Scott A. Thompson of Aero Vintage B-17G 44-83718 (N900RW), most recently known as Thunderbird, remains under extensive rebuild in an Erickson Aircraft Collection hangar in Madras, Oregon. AeroVintage’s contributor Connor Bond visited and viewed […]

Dakota Territory Air Museum – P-47D Restoration Update – September/October 2022

October 23, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Vintage Aviation News has received the September/October, 2022 report from Chuck Cravens concerning the restoration of the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47D Thunderbolt 42-27609 at AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota. We thought our readers would be very interested to […]

Your Stories: Who’s Available to Fly in The BT-13 With Col McGee?

October 23, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Your Stories is a collection of memories sent by our readers and readopted as articles for this website. If you are interested in sharing your memories and stories with us please contact us HERE. by […]

Lockheed Martin On The Big Screen

October 22, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Maverick exceeded Mach 10 when he piloted a conceptual hypersonic aircraft, known as Darkstar, designed by the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® team in the recent Top Gun: Maverick film. Darkstar’s capabilities met Maverick’s “need for […]

Reno Recap: 2022 Stihl National Championship Air Races

October 21, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 5

Reno Recap: 2022 Stihl National Championship Air Races by Aaron Haase The Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) held their annual air racing event at Reno-Stead Airport in Reno, Nevada from September 14th through September 18th, 2022. […]

Northrop YB 49 42 102367 takes off from Northrop Field Hawthorne California. U.S. Air Force

This Day in Aviation History: First Flight of The YB-49

October 21, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 21, 1947, at Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California, Northrop Corporation Chief Test Pilot Max R. Stanley took off in the first YB-49, 42-102367, and flew […]

Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum To Restore RAF Avro Vulcan

October 21, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Preparations are underway to bring the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum’s AVRO VULCAN into the restoration to begin work. The Vulcan was Britain’s largest operational combat aircraft and was designed for strike and strategic […]

Lufthansa to Place Vintage Aircraft on Permanent Display

October 21, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 2

PRESS RELEASE In 2026, Lufthansa will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding: On January 6, 1926, Deutsche Luft Hansa AG was launched in Berlin through the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr. […]

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