Vintage Aviation News

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 […]

AMARG: America’s Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve – New Book by Veronico & Dunn

October 2, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

New AMARG Book Marks 75th Anniversary of the Boneyard Noted aviation authors Jim Dunn and Nicholas A. Veronico have released a new book on the military aircraft storage operation in Tucson, Arizona – just […]

North American Aviation XP 86 Sabre 45 59597 with George Welch color

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The North American Aviation XP-86

October 1, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 1, 1947, after three years of development in which 801,386 engineering hours and 340,594 drafting hours had been expended, the first prototype North American […]

This rendering by architecture firm McMillan Pazdan Smith shows the concept for the new building that will house the Hickory Aviation Museum and Catawba Valley Community College Workforce Innovation Center.

Hickory Aviation Museum to Begin Fundraising Campaign For New Building

September 30, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

As reported by the Hickory Daily Record, on Wednesday, September 28th, the Hickory Aviation Museum will kick off its fundraising campaign for a building to house the museum’s aircraft at an event Wednesday at the […]

Thom Richard’s American Dream Skyranch – Adventures on The Wing!

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Thom Richard’s passion for WWII aviation is well known in the American warbird community, whether from within the high octane environment of Unlimited Air Racing in Reno, Nevada where he piloted the much-modified, Rolls-Royce Griffon-powered […]

McDonnell F 101A 1 MC Voodoo 53 2418 parked on Rogers Dry Lake Edwards Air Force Base California. U.S. Air Force 1

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The F-101 Voodoo

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On September 29, 1954, at Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of southern California, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation test pilot Robert C. Little made the […]

WWII veteran gunner Dick Miralles relives his wartime flying in a restored SBD Dauntless

WWII Veteran Takes to The Air in SBD Dive Bomber 80 Years Later

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE PEACHTREE CITY, GA (Sept. 28, 2022) – WWII Veteran Dick Miralles slid into the gunner’s seat of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber almost as easily as he did 80 years ago in the […]

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

WWII Heritage Day Spotlights WWII and The Space Age

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

Handley Page Victor Goes on Display at The IWM Duxford

AMARG: America’s Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve – New Book by Veronico & Dunn

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The North American Aviation XP-86

Hickory Aviation Museum to Begin Fundraising Campaign For New Building

Thom Richard’s American Dream Skyranch – Adventures on The Wing!

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The F-101 Voodoo

WWII Veteran Takes to The Air in SBD Dive Bomber 80 Years Later

A Caproni Ca.310 Libeccio Takes Shape in Norway

Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group Achieves Major Milestone

AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Restoration Report – Fall 2024 Update

Mid America Flight Museum Releases Update on B-17G ‘Thunderbird’