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Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Announced Important Donation

October 17, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s President & CEO, Dave Rohrer, at their 50th Gala on October 15th, announced the donation of three significant aircraft to their collection – a Supermarine Spitfire, Avro Canada CF-100 […]

Pull a Plane 2022 is Ready to Launch on Oct. 15 in Wichita

October 14, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE The 2022 Pull a Plane for Education scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 15, is gearing up to be a premiere weekend event with something for all ages. The event at the B-29 Doc Hangar, […]

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BBMF Launch a Brand-new Spitfire Simulator Experience

October 14, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire simulator project began in April 2022 with an empty shell of a cockpit. The vision was to create a one-to-one scale replica Spitfire cockpit that, in […]

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National Air and Space Museum Reopens With Eight New Galleries

October 13, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum reopens Friday, Oct. 14, with eight new and renovated galleries in the west wing of its building in Washington, D.C. The planetarium and museum store will […]

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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., […]

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