Vintage Aviation

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Tim Savage Adds Historic Western Airlines DC-3 to Collection

Tim Savage, warbird collector and long-time publisher of Warbird Digest, has acquired Douglas DC-3 NC33644, intending…

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Hollywood Bomber Targets Spring 2024 For Airworthiness

By Gary Daniels Vintage Aviation News first reported on the restoration progress of the 1954…

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Smithy’s Historic Record Fokker VH-USU

Contributing Editor James Kightly profiles Fokker F.VIIb VH-USU - unquestionably one of the most important…

Fokker F VIIb ‘Southern Cross’ Replica Flies in Australia

After over 20 years on the ground, the Fokker F.VIIb Replica VH-USU 'Southern Cross', operated…

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Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival Fights The Weather

By Grant Newman The hard-working management team running the Wings over Wairarapa (WoW) Air Festival…

Cypriot Company Zela Aviation Acquired Famous Abandoned Olympic Airliners

Two of the rusting, stripped-down passenger jets that once belonged to Olympic Airways (OA), which…

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WACO 100th Anniversary Fly-In

by Nigel Hitchman On September 15-17, 2023, the WACO Historical Society held a fly-in at…

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Captain Gusso’s Piaggio P.149 Checks All the Boxes

After many years of military and civilian professional flying, Captain Giancarlo Gusso wanted to own…

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Aussie DC-2 Open Day

Report by Commissioning Editor James Kightly At Albury airport, NSW, Australia, on Saturday 28 October…

Ala Doble’s Vintage Aviation Invitational, 2023

Ala Doble Ranch invitation fly-in, Marginal Aviation ‘Last Ditch’ 29 - 30 September 2023 By…

2023 Beech Party: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Donivan Godsil 50 years ago, in the south-central part of Tennessee, there was a…

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Lufthansa’s Lockheed Starliner Moves to Hamburg

We often receive questions regarding what happened to Lockheed L-1649A Starliner N7361C, which Lufthansa spent…

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Belfast Transport Set to Return

 By Dave Söderström, Historic Australian Aircraft. In what seems almost unheard of in today’s world,…

Canadian Curtiss Flying Boat Moves On

By James Kightly, Commissioning Editor. The original 1920s Curtiss Seagull flying boat, which has been…