Tag: Aircraft Salvage

Aircraft or parts thereof being brought back from the dead, whether raised from the oceans’ floor, hacked from a jungle or rescued from a scrapyard.

Despite Obstacles, RAF Museum Salvage of Dornier Do 17 a Complete Success

With salvage consistently hampered by poor weather and seabed geology that prevented the fitment of…

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Canadians Band Together to Save and Restore a Consolidated PBY Canso

What started out as six farmers from Fairview, Alberta looking to save a piece of…

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B-24 Liberator Under Restoration in Australia Needs a New Home

Inside of a vintage WWII hangar on a disused airfield in Werribee, Australia volunteers work…

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English Electric Lightning Reunites With its Final Pilot 36 Years Later

The Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (BDAC) located at the Old Sarum Airfield just North of…

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Womans Name on Turret Leads to Identification of B-17 Debris in Italian Lake

In Viterbo, Italy a long-standing mystery has been solved. A wrecked B-17 bomber that disintegrated…

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Sandbar Mitchell Project Lands a Donated Helicopter Lift

There's been a significant development in a story we've been covering, the project to retrieve…

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RAF Museum Retrieval of Dornier Do 17 Proceeding

As we recently reported, the retrieval of what is believed to be the world's only…

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Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress Arrives at Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor

One of the most talked about artifacts of American aviation history, the Boeing B-17E Flying…

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Canadian Halifax Project Seeks to Resurrect Planes, from Parts if Necessary

Karl Kjarsgaard is a man on a mission. He is presently combing the globe for…

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Work Begins to Retrieve Dornier Do 17 from the Waters off English Coast

Work began last week to raise what is believed to be the last surviving example…

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