Explore the latest vintage aircraft restorations from around the world, with in-depth updates on warbirds, museum projects, and rare aircraft brought back to life by skilled teams and passionate volunteers.


After a flying career of over 20 years, then languishing in a Montana forest for…
Four months after being driven to the March Field Air Museum, a Sikorsky VH-3A Sea…
by Adam Estes For some years now, a dedicated team of volunteers with the Yankee…
By Adam Estes Of all the aircraft of WWII, few have had quite the cultural…
By Zac Yates Sixty-six years, five months, and twelve days after making the final flight…
We present this feature article from the July 1998 archives of Warbirds Worldwide Journal No.45…
The Spirit of Flight Foundation museum announced that a rare Boeing P-26 Peashooter replica has…
Ermete Grillo, originally from Rome but now resident in Pisa, Italy, is on a mission:…
By Nigel Hitchman, with additional material by James Kightly A rare Great War era American…
The world finally has a flying Hawker Tempest! Pete Kynsey made the maiden post-restoration flight…
The Fagen Fighters WWII Museum's Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver (BuNo.83393) roared to life outside the museum's…
ย By Dave Sรถderstrรถm, Historic Australian Aircraft. In what seems almost unheard of in todayโs world,…
Inside the restoration hangar of the National Museum of The U.S. Air Force, the restoration…
During our recent visit to the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, England, we had…
As most of our readers will know, Avro Lancaster B.VII NX611ย Just Janeย is under restoration to…
By James Kightly, Commissioning Editor On the morning of September 5, 2023, the 1959 Grumman…
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