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Fagen Fighters Warbird Ground Handling Equipment – 5% Christmas Sale

December 20, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Back in November, we published an article describing how our sponsors at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum had designed and fabricated several items of ground handling equipment for servicing the warbirds in their collection. The […]

Fagen Fighters Restoration – Warbird Ground Equipment Product Line

November 23, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Following Jay Wislers’s decision to retire from the warbird parts supply business back in 2017, Fagen Fighters Restoration purchased the entirety of his massive stock list, adding to their already impressive inventory. The company now […]

Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Wins Top Awards at Oshkosh

August 5, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Anna Mc Cosh – Fagen Fighters WWII Museum The restoration of Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat BuNo.78645 Death N’ Destruction has been a full journey – far too full to squeeze into this small article. Suffice to […]

Fagen Fighters’ Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver – Restoration Update – June, 2021

June 30, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

It has been a couple of months since our last report on progress with the restoration of Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver Bu.83393 at the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, but a lot has […]

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Fagen Fighters’ Photo Mission

June 17, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Fagen Fighters WWII Museum hosted Scott Slocum’s AeroMedia Group this past weekend, which was packed with flying and aerial photography. Everyone at the museum expressed how much they appreciated the time and talent Slocum and his crew gave […]

Fagen Fighters’ P-38 Lightning Makes First Flight Since 2018

June 14, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Following a particularly in-depth inspection, Fagen Fighters WWII Museum flew their Lockheed P-38L Lightning Scatt III on June 9th; the first flight the aircraft has made since 2018. In addition to the P-38, the museum’s P-51D Sweet […]

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Fagen Fighters WWII Museum Reopens

May 20, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

It’s been over a year since the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum has been able to host visitors, so one can imagine their relief and joy at opening their doors for the fist time again this […]

Fagen Fighters’ Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver – Restoration Update – April, 2021

April 16, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

With the recent arrival of their freshly restored Grumman Hellcat, which we reported on a couple of days ago, comes news from the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum about progress with their ultra-rare Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver Bu.83393. […]

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Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Arrives at Her New Home

April 13, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

While we reported the exciting news this January concerning the first post-restoration flight of Grumman F6F-5 BuNo.78645 at Fighter Rebuilder’s facility in Chino, California, we now have news that Steve Hinton has flown the aircraft […]

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Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Flies

January 4, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

When the world bid a happy farewell to 2020, with cautious optimism that 2021 would bring bigger and better things, the warbird community did not have to wait long for the latter. On January 3, […]

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