Vintage Aviation News

North American SNJ-6 Texan Restored After Hitting Power Lines is Acquired By Lyon Air Museum

September 13, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

Lyon Air Museum of Santa Ana, California has announced that they have acquired an airworthy North American AT-6F/SNJ-6 Texan to be added to their growing collection of airworthy warbirds. Founded by Major General William Lyon, […]

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Eight Broken Bolingbrokes Go Towards One Flyer at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

September 3, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum of Hamilton, Ontario, is in the process of restoring a Bristol Bolingbroke Mk. IVT to flying condition. A variant of the Bristol Blenheim built under license by Fairchild-Canada, the Bolingbroke […]

Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland Building a Flying Sopwith 1½ Strutter Replica

August 25, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

Allied with the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, part of the National Museums of Scotland, the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland (APSS) is a group of aviation enthusiasts that are actively involved in […]

Airworthy de Havilland Mosquito Restoration Approaches Completion in Canada

August 16, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 19

In the comments section for our recent story on the first flight of the world’s only flying Mosquito, Warbirds News reader Paul Smith, tipped us off about another Mosquito that will soon be returning to […]

Restoration of Prototype XP-82 Twin Mustang Makes Progress

August 8, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

We’re able to report significant progress in the restoration to flying condition of Tom Reilly’s North American XP-82 Twin Mustang, and what a project it is. As we recently reported, starting with what was, in […]

Restoration of Douglas SBD Dauntless Retrieved From Lake Michigan Well on its Way

July 28, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

In a project that began for them in 2011, Vultures Row Aviation has mad significant progress in their restoration of Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless BuNo 10694 that was raised from the bottom of Lake Michigan in […]

Restoration of crashed Grumman C-1A Trader “Miss Belle” Nears Completion

July 23, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 13

It took nearly 10 years, but it looks like the restoration of the Grumman C-1A Trader, “Miss Belle,” owned by Trader Air of Topeka, Kansas might be done in time for the plane to make […]

Fantasy of Flight’s Stinson L-1 Flew Today!

July 18, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 7

After a very long restoration project and recent FAA sign off, a Stinson L-1 Vigilant owned by Kermit Weeks’ Fantasy of Flight Museum of Polk City, Florida took the sky today for the first in […]

Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43 Lands at Fantasy of Flight

June 30, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Kermit Weeks and his team from Fantasy of Flight in Polk City, Florida, spent about a week in Texas earlier this month disassembling the 1937 Sikorsky S-43 that Howard Hughes commissioned for a record-breaking around […]

Jonathan Collection Caproni Ca.3 Airworthy Replica Project Well Underway

June 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

In a project that began in 2009, Giancarlo Zanardo’s Jonathan Collection has taken on its most ambitious project to date, the recreation of an airworthy Caproni Ca.3. Already boasting a collection of notable warbirds with […]

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