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Beechcraft Model 18 Rescued by Arnhem War Museum

March 30, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Beech D18S PH-UBX has been rescued from a car dealer/junk yard where it had been serving as eye-catching signage for the enterprise for at least 40 years. Originally serving the Dutch military after World War […]

Yankee Air Museum Makes Tough Decisions

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

Three vintage aircraft are scheduled to be scrapped by the Yankee Air Museum of Belleville, Michigan: A Douglas DC-6B, a Grumman A-6A Intruder and an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy AW.650. The museum, founded in 1981 suffered […]

MiG to go on Display at the Palm Springs Air Museum

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Palm Springs Air Museum (PSAM) has added a recently-acquired Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F 1112, a former Czechoslovakian Air Force plane, to its collection on display. The plane was brought to the United States by a Czech […]

Classic Air Force Museum in Cornwall, UK Opens Today

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

As we reported earlier, the Classic Air Force Museum, based at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, United Kingdom opens today, March 29, 2013. In celebration of the grand opening the museum is waiving all admission fees […]

Cleveland’s U.S. Aviation Museum In The Process Of Restoring Vintage Boeing B-29 Superfortress

March 28, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

A group named “Doc’s Friends” has recently taken ownership of the 25-year project to restore a Boeing Superfortress bomber. The organization takes its name from the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs character, whose countenance […]

Rare Flying Bomb Completes Restoration

March 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Lashenden Air Warfare Museum’s extremely rare Fieseler Fi 103R-IV Reichenberg, which was essentially a piloted version of the V-1 flying bomb, recently completed a five year restoration by Auktionshaus fur historic Technik in Geisenhausen, […]

Warner Robins’ Museum of Aviation Unburdens Itself of 32 Deteriorating Aircraft

March 26, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Warner Robins’ Museum of Aviation is contracting for the first time in its 29 year history, getting rid of a third of its collection. Among those things getting the axe are three missiles and 29 […]

Wildwood Aviation Museum Hosts Restored B-17

March 25, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

Following a nine-year restoration effort by the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan, the Yankee Lady will pay a visit to New Jersey’s Cape May Naval Air Station from June 10-12. The B-17 has been […]

Classic Air Force Museum Opens March 29th

March 25, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

March 29th is the anticipated grand opening date for the Classic Air Force (CAF) museum at Newquay Cornwall Airport (NQI) in Cornwall, United Kingdom. In preparation for the opening, the 1946-built Auster Autocrat , G-JAYI […]

Old Rhinebeck’s Spirit of St Louis Resumes Construction

March 22, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

After an extended period of inactivity, work on the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum’s reproduction of the Spirit of St. Louis has resumed. The reproduction aircraft project was begun by the aerodrome’s founder Cole Palen who […]

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