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Starfighters Aerospace Increases Flight Training

October 12, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 2

On October 10th and 11th, pilots from Starfighters Aerospace performed a series of training flights with a pair of their Lockheed F-104 Starfighters, launching from their base at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in […]

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List of Affordable Warbirds

October 12, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 4

by Jeremy Cox Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘warbird’ simply “as a military airplane.” That being said, there are those who believe strongly that the term applies to any former military aircraft which is now under […]

WWII Heritage Day Delights Thousands with Displays, Aircraft

October 12, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE PEACHTREE CITY, GA. (Oct. 12, 2022) – The buzz of WWII restored aircraft filled the air as thousands of attendees enjoyed aircraft displays, presentations, reenactor camps and artifact collections Oct. 8 at WWII […]

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March Field Air Museum’s B-29 Superfortress

October 10, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 6

by Adam Estes The March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California has numerous restoration projects on the go presently, efforts which range from a multitude of Cessna O-2 Skymasters and Beech T-34 Mentors to an Antonov […]

Forrest Lovley to be inducted Into The Vintage Aircraft Association Hall of Fame

October 9, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE Forrest Lovley of Jordan, Minnesota, who has more than a half-century of aircraft restoration and building experience, will be honored by EAA’s Vintage Aircraft Association division on November 10 with his induction to […]

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The Learjet

October 7, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 7, 1963, the first of two Learjet 23 prototypes, made its first flight at Wichita, Kansas, with test pilots Henry Grady (“Hank”) Beaird, Jr., […]

Tom Reilly to Be Inducted into EAA Warbirds of America Hall of Fame

October 7, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — (October 6, 2022) — Tom Reilly of Douglas, Georgia, whose piloting and restoration accomplishments are legendary within the warbirds community, will be inducted into the EAA Warbirds of America […]

WWII Heritage Day Spotlights WWII and The Space Age

October 4, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PEACHTREE CITY, GA. (Oct. 3, 2022) – WWII Heritage Day, the oldest and largest WWII and 1940s-themed event in Georgia, offers a full day of aviation-related activities on Oct. 8, 2022, at Atlanta Regional Airport […]

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Acquires Rare WWII Val Dive Bomber 2

Ultra-Rare Aichi Val Dive Bomber Arrives at Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum

October 3, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum recently took delivery of an ultra-rare Aichi D3A Type 99 carrier-borne dive bomber, better known to many by its Allied code name, ‘Val’. The fragile, incomplete fuselage of this once fearsome […]

Handley Page Victor Goes on Display at The IWM Duxford

October 2, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 2

After five years of painstaking work by the conservation team at Imperial War Museum Duxford, Handley Page Victor B.1 XH648 is now complete and on permanent display within the museum’s Conservation Hall. Last week, the […]

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