Vintage Aviation News

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 […]

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 […]

Spitfire with a Racing History Makes Progress in Restoration

March 28, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI P1983, registration G-PRXI, has recently emerged from the paint shop of Historic Flying Ltd. in Duxford, United Kingdom. Sporting a new paint scheme, the Spitfire now wears the wartime photo reconnaissance blue […]

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, […]

One of Boeing’s Silver Stars is Getting A Make-Over

March 24, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Based out of Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, two Canadair CT-133 Silver Star Mk.3s are used as chase-planes for aircraft that are out on flight test, their unobstructed-view bubble canopies providing excellent visibility for those […]

Beechcraft 18 Repaint in Progress

March 23, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

Progress is being reported on the re-paint of Beechcraft 18-3TM G-BKGL being performed for owner Tim Darrah at Beechcraft specialists, Beech Restorations at Bruntingthorpe in the East Midlands, United Kingdom. The plane was built during […]

Engine Test for the Starfighter LN-STF

March 19, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Today we have another engine test. The first test of this engine was performed in 2007 on Starfighter LN-STF which belongs to the Norwegian association “Friends of the Starfighter” and was performed at the Royal […]

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