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Connecticut Air and Space Center Still Recovering from Hurricane Sandy

April 4, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Connecticut Air and Space Center (CASC) in Stratford, Connecticut has been repairing the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy which brought historic devastation to the Northeast this past October. The facility’s storage and restoration building […]

Prestwick World Festival of Flight and RAF Museum London Commemorate the First Flight Over Mount Everest

April 3, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Prestwick World Festival of Flight and RAF Museum London will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first flight over Mount Everest, which was achieved on April 3, 1933. No place on Earth held more allure […]

North American B-25J Mitchell Finds a New Home

April 1, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

North American B-25J Mitchell 44-86725 (N25NA) has been acquired by US warbird enthusiast Dr. Brent Hisey. The bomber, named Super Rabbit recently arrived at its new home, the Oklahoma Museum of Flying (OMOF) at Wiley […]

The Starfighter Has Arrived At The Alberta Aviation Museum

March 31, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

As previously reported by Warbirds News, the Alberta Aviation Museum has acquired an F-104 Starfighter from The Netherlands. The Starfighter was delivered in two shipping containers this past Friday morning. Tim Hinderks, executive director of […]

Maryland Martin 4-0-4 Evokes Original Prototype

March 31, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Thanks to a donation from aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, the Glenn L Martin Maryland Aviation Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has repainted their Martin 4-0-4, registration number N259S in the color scheme originally worn by the […]

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 […]

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