Aviation Museum News
Museum Digs-In with Aviation Archeology Symposium On October 13
Experts in the field will share secrets and discoveries from aviation’s lost worlds at The Museum of Flight’s Aviation Archeology Symposium. […]
Aviation Archeology
Warbirds News
Messerschmitt Bf 109 Resurfaces on Malta
by Richard Mallory Allnutt The island of Malta suffered terribly during the first three years of WWII, its people withstanding an almost impenetrable maritime blockade and near constant aerial attack from Axis forces trying to […]
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Finding Loren – Documentary to Missing P-47 Pilot Premieres this Saturday
Regular readers might remember a story we ran a few years ago which featured the family of a missing WWII P-47 Thunderbolt pilot, 1st Lt. Loren Hintz, and their efforts to locate the crash site […]
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Ghosts of the Po River Valley – Finding the Lost Flyers of the Italian Air Campaign
Ghosts of the Po River Valley – Finding the Lost Flyers of the Italian Air Campaign by Moreno Aguiari When many of us think about combat in the European Theatre during WWII, it is easy […]
Warbird Restorations
WWII Japanese Aircraft Wrecks Salvaged at Balalae
It has recently come to light that a number of significant Japanese aircraft wrecks are currently being disassembled for recovery in the South Pacific. Located at the old Imperial Japanese Navy airfield on Balalae Island, […]
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Italian Air Force F-51D Mustang Recovered From Lake Garda
On December 2nd, as reported by Giornaledbrescia, the Associazione Volontari del Garda (Garda Volunteers Association) recovered the substantial remains of an Italian Air Force F-51D Mustang from Lake Garda in northern Italy. This aircraft crashed into […]
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Finding Loren – Excavation of P-47 Wreck in Italy
AirCorps Aviation, the aircraft restoration experts in Bemidji, Minnesota, have announced a fascinating and poignant project which will unfold over the next two weeks in northern Italy. They are supporting an effort inspired by Hans […]
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The Last Flight of Don Gentile
This past Thursday marked the 64th anniversary of the tragic accident which claimed the life of legendary WWII fighter ace, Don Gentile. WarbirdsNews contributor, David Cohen, has investigated the causes behind Gentile’s crash, which also took […]
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First Production Me-262 Wreck Unearthed in The Netherlands?
Back in October, 2014 members of the Deelen Air Base Museum near Arnhem in the Netherlands discovered the substantial remains of a Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe jet fighter. They discovered the battered parts of the aircraft purely by accident […]
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Aviation Archeology Symposium at Museum of Flight
SEATTLE, March 6th, 2015—Over the weekend of March 14th/15th, The Museum of Flight will host its second annual two-day symposium about aviation archaeology. The event will bring together a team of international experts on aircraft […]