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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

RAF Museum Retrieval of Dornier Do 17 Proceeding

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

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…

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…

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…