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Aviation Archaeology Online Event

February 15, 2024 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By James Kightly The Aviation Cultures Conferences team have arranged for several professional, expert aviation archaeologists with top level insight from the US, UK, Hong Kong and Australia, to present online at this Saturday’s Aviation […]

Progress Report on the Air Force Flight Test Museum

February 14, 2024 Luc Zipkin 0

By Adam Estes In several articles of ours over the years here at Vintage Aviation News (see related posts below), we have covered the efforts of the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air […]

Wings Over Britain – Partner Podcast Update

February 13, 2024 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By Matt Austin One of the joys of being a young aviation enthusiast in the 1980s was the opportunity to sit and listen to the stories of those with first-hand experience of the times and […]

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Top Gun: Maverick’s Darkstar Arrives at Palm Springs Air Museum

February 13, 2024 Adam Estes 0

By Adam Estes As millions of moviegoers around the world sat for the opening of Top Gun: Maverick, we here at Vintage Aviation News were at the edge of our seats when Captain Pete Mitchell […]

American Airpower Museum Celebrates Black History Month

February 11, 2024 Angela Decker 0

PRESS RELEASE On Saturday, February 24, 2024 the American Airpower Museum (AAM) at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York, United States will celebrate Black History Month by honoring the memory of the Tuskegee Airmen and […]

XB259, the last surviving example of the Blackburn Beverley, has been at Fort Paull near Hull since 1974. [Photo via Solway Aviation Museum]

Museum Launches Fundraiser to Save the Last Blackburn Beverley

February 11, 2024 Zac Yates 0

By Zac Yates Solway Aviation Museum in the UK has launched a £60000 funding appeal to rescue and preserve the world’s only surviving Blackburn Beverley transport aircraft. The last of only 49 ever built, the […]

CAF Airbase Georgia Fundraising Campaign Exceeds Goals

February 7, 2024 Moreno Aguiari 1

PRESS RELEASE Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Airbase Georgia has exceeded its goals for an annual fundraising program that designated two World War II-era aircraft for 2023 – a Stearman biplane trainer and a Republic P-47 […]

The National Museum of The Mighty Eighth Air Force Opens Two Minutes to Midnight and The Architecture of Armageddon

February 5, 2024 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE In 2018, the Doomsday Clock was set to two minutes to midnight, the closest it has ever been to striking midnight since the height of the Cold War in 1953 when both the […]

The airplane is a two-seater built in 1935 thanks to the collaboration between two Ethiopian engineers and a German pilot. [Photo via Ministero della Difesa]

Italy Has Returned Ethiopia’s First Airplane, Stolen By The Fascist Regime In 1936

February 2, 2024 Moreno Aguiari 1

On January 30th, 2024 Italy, represented by Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, returned to Ethiopia its first indigenously-built aircraft, which had been stolen and brought to Italy by the Italian army during the occupation of […]

CAF Airbase Georgia Chief Pilot Receives FAA Master Pilot Award

February 2, 2024 Angela Decker 0

PRESS RELEASE Stan Musick, the chief pilot for the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Airbase Georgia, has received the Master Pilot award from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Al Van Lengen, Principal Operations Inspector assigned to […]

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