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Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor to Commemorate The Battle of Midway

May 10, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Marking the 71st Anniversary of the “turning point in the Pacific,” the Battle of Midway, Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor will present a special program featuring Jonathan Parshall, co-author of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story […]

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Planes of Fame Air Show Lightning Strikes Chino Aptly Named

May 9, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Planes of Fame Air Museum’s 2013 Air Show in Chino, California, entitled “Lightning Strikes Chino” happened this past weekend and had five flying Lockheed P-38 Lightnings in the air and flying formation, in what […]

Yanks Air Museum Takes Delivery of F-104 Starfighter

May 9, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

Planes often have to be shipped from the other side of the earth to join a collection. Imagine how exciting it must have been for the Yanks Air Museum of Chino, California to locate an […]

Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress Arrives at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor

May 9, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

One of the most talked about artifacts of American aviation history, the Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress #41-2446 “Swamp Ghost”, arrived at the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor recently. The plane, force landed in 1942 in […]

World’s Last Macchi M.7 Undergoing Restoration in Sweden

May 8, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

In addition to the Donnet-Lévêque “Flying Fish” Restoration on which we recently reported, another restoration project of Flygvapenmuseum and the Tullingebergsvägen Group is making progress; coincidentally it’s also a flying boat, a Macchi M.7.

World’s Only Flying Mosquito Flew Today!

May 7, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 61

Regular readers of Warbirds News know we’ve been following the progress of Jerry Yagen and the Military Aviation Museum’s de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, from its shipment from New Zealand to the announcement of its first […]

Work Begins to Retrieve Dornier Do 17 from the Waters off English Coast

May 7, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

Work began last week to raise what is believed to be the last surviving example of the Donier Do 17, located on its back in a sand formation 50 feet below the surface, six miles […]

Donnet-Lévêque “Flying Fish” Restoration Nearing Completion in Sweden

May 6, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Flygvapenmuseum (Air Force Museum) in Linköping, Sweden, just south of Stockholm is reporting significant progress in the restoration it’s 1913 Donnet-Lévêque Type A flying boat. The restoration project is being performed by the Tullingebergsvägen […]

F-111 arrives at Fighter World

May 6, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

A retired Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark made the overland trip from Base Amberley In Queensland to Fighter World in Williamtown, New South Wales over this past weekend. In preparation for […]

Yankee Air Museum Tries to Raise $6 Million to Purchase Former B-24 Bomber Factory

May 4, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Yankee Air Museum of Belleville, Michigan has just announced a $6 million campaign to purchase and undertake the necessary renovation costs to move the museum into a portion of the former General Motors Willow […]

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