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CAF P-47N Thunderbolt – Restoration Update – Spring 2023

April 23, 2023 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

Last summer, we ran an article describing the arrival of the Commemorative Air Force’s partially rebuilt P-47N Thunderbolt at CAF Airbase Georgia. Since that date, the organization’s highly accomplished restoration team at Falcon Field in […]

CAF PBY Catalina Restoration Update – December 2022

December 5, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 3

As many will know, the Commemorative Air Force Lake Superior Squadron has spent the last several years working diligently on the ambitious airworthy restoration of Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina BuNo.64097. As an update to our last report in November […]

Commemorative Air Force Announces the 12 Planes of Christmas

December 4, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is again holding their “12 Planes of Christmas,” an online giving campaign providing an opportunity to aid in the restoration and maintenance of the aircraft as well as learn more […]

The Commemorative Air Force Comes to the Rocket City

November 23, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 1

PRESS RELEASE Huntsville, Alabama, is known as “Rocket City” due to its 70-year history with America’s space program. Home to Redstone Arsenal, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, the Missile Defense Agency, and the US Army […]

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After Dallas…

November 15, 2022 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 25

by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Editor) Words are usually my strongest ally, but I am unsure where or even how to begin… I have written and re-written these opening lines a dozen times or more. We […]

CAF Airbase Georgia Confirming Tuskegee Airmen and Possible WASP Connections

October 25, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Commemorative Air Force’s Airbase Georgia in Peachtree City, Georgia will soon restore their Fairchild PT-19A Cornell trainer 42-83511 (N5215Z). As part of the restoration effort, the airframe will be re-covered and painted to resemble, as closely […]

WWII Heritage Day Delights Thousands with Displays, Aircraft

October 12, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE PEACHTREE CITY, GA. (Oct. 12, 2022) – The buzz of WWII restored aircraft filled the air as thousands of attendees enjoyed aircraft displays, presentations, reenactor camps and artifact collections Oct. 8 at WWII […]

WWII veteran gunner Dick Miralles relives his wartime flying in a restored SBD Dauntless

WWII Veteran Takes to The Air in SBD Dive Bomber 80 Years Later

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE PEACHTREE CITY, GA (Sept. 28, 2022) – WWII Veteran Dick Miralles slid into the gunner’s seat of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber almost as easily as he did 80 years ago in the […]

Bell 47 Joins CAF Bayou State Escadrille

September 19, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) recently assigned their Bell 47G-4A helicopter to the Bayou State Escadrille, a newly-formed CAF unit based at Northshore Regional Airport in Hammond, Louisiana. On September 7th, 2022, several unit members traveled San Marcos, […]

CAF Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center

CAF Announces This Year’s Featured 12 Planes of Christmas Aircraft

September 1, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will again hold their “12 Planes of Christmas,” an online giving campaign in the Winter. The campaign provides an opportunity to aid in the restoration and maintenance of the aircraft […]

Commemorative Air Force

CAF P-47N Thunderbolt – Restoration Update – Spring 2023

CAF PBY Catalina Restoration Update – December 2022

Commemorative Air Force Announces the 12 Planes of Christmas

The Commemorative Air Force Comes to the Rocket City

CAF Airbase Georgia Confirming Tuskegee Airmen and Possible WASP Connections

WWII Heritage Day Delights Thousands with Displays, Aircraft

WWII Veteran Takes to The Air in SBD Dive Bomber 80 Years Later

Bell 47 Joins CAF Bayou State Escadrille

CAF Announces This Year’s Featured 12 Planes of Christmas Aircraft

A Caproni Ca.310 Libeccio Takes Shape in Norway

Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group Achieves Major Milestone

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