Vintage Aviation News

EAA’s B-25 Joins B-29 Doc For Joint Tour Appearances in Florida and Louisiana

February 7, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-25 Berlin Express and the B-29 Doc will join together for multiple History Restored Tour stops in Florida and Louisiana beginning on March 31 to kick off the 2022 tour seasons […]

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C-53 Skytrooper ‘Beach City Baby’ – February 2022 Restoration Update

February 6, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Over the past seven years, we have been following the remarkable efforts by Jason Capra and his team at Vintage Wings Inc. as they have resurrected a combat veteran Douglas C-53 Skytrooper from its then […]

Kelowna’s KF Centre for Excellence Acquires de Havilland Mosquito

February 5, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – The KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence (opening later this year) is excited to announce a de Havilland 98 Mosquito will soon be joining its star-studded cast of classic aircraft. Affectionately known as […]

Win the The Ultimate World War II Fighter Experience Sweepstakes!

February 3, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Most of us can only dream of flying in a WWII-vintage fighter plane, let alone the thrill of doing so in the hallowed airspace through which so many men flew them eighty years ago, and […]

The Vulcan Experience Unable to Meet the Fundraising Deadline

February 3, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – The Vulcan to the Sky (VTTS) charity has been unable to meet the fundraising deadline to raise the £2.2m needed to progress plans to build The Vulcan Experience at Doncaster Sheffield Airport. […]

B-29 ‘Doc’ Adds Three Air Shows in Texas to Its 2022 Tour Season

February 2, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – B-29 Doc has added three air shows in Texas to its 2022 tour season schedule. Doc is among the list of performers for the Great Texas Air Show at JBSA-Randolph in April, […]

Hawker Typhoon RB396 – Winter 2021 Progress Update

February 1, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 1

As many will know, the Hawker Typhoon is one of the rarest production fighter aircraft from WWII, with only one known complete survivor in preservation today. The Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group is working very hard […]

EAA B-17G Aluminum Overcast – Status Update

January 31, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 6

by Scott Thompson of Aero Vintage via EAA’s Dick Knapinski and Chris Henry The Experimental Aircraft Association’s B-17G, Aluminum Overcast (44-85740, N5017N), has been at Punta Gorda, Florida since April 2021, grounded after a wing-attach issue […]

Last Cruise For The USS Kitty Hawk

January 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation’s last oil-fired aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas shipyard. Navy tug boats supported the […]

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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The XP-38 Lightning

January 27, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On January 27, 1939, First Lieutenant Benjamin Scovill Kelsey, Air Corps, United States Army, made the first flight of the prototype Lockheed XP-38 Lightning, serial number […]

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