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Golden Apple Sabre Completes Engine Overhaul

April 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

Golden Apple Operations’ North American F86A Sabre 48-178 has just recently completed engine runs at Aircraft Restoration Company’s facility at Duxford, UK following an 18 month rebuild of the machines General Electric J47-13 jet engine, […]

Warhawk Air Museum Takes Delivery of F-104 Starfighter

April 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The latest acquisition of the Warhawk Air Museum was delivered to the museum’s facility at Nampa Municipal Airport in Nampa, Idaho yesterday, a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. The world’s first combat aircraft capable of sustained Mach […]

Saab 32 Lansen Prototype goes to Gotland Museum

April 26, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The original production prototype for the Saab 32 Lansen has been acquired by the Gotlands FörsvarsMuseum on the Swedish island of Gotland, located in the middle of the Baltic Sea. The plane, built in 1955, […]

2013 Warbirds Over the Beach Air Show, Virginia Beach, VA May 18th and 19th

April 26, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Annual “Warbirds Over the Beach Air Show” is being held May 18 & 19 at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The Museum’s aircraft from the 1940’s and earlier, which are all […]

F104 Starfighter on the Ground in Alberta

April 25, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

We’ve been closely following the progress of the Alberta Aviation Museum’s newest acquisition, an F-104 Starfighter from The Netherlands, from the announcement of shipment, to its arrival, to the latest news, the un-crating and crane […]

Race-Winning Harrier Acquired by Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

April 22, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Hawker Siddeley Harrier XV744, the plane that won the London to New York contest of the Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race, setting a world-record transit time in the process, has been acquired by the Tangmere […]

Extraordinary Flight Training Opportunity in a Messerschmitt Me 262

April 7, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 4

The Collings Foundation is offering Unusual Attitude / Upset Recovery Training and Type Ratings in one of World War II’s most historically important and iconic jet aircraft – the Messerschmitt Me 262. The Messerschmitt Me […]

MiG to go on Display at the Palm Springs Air Museum

March 29, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Palm Springs Air Museum (PSAM) has added a recently-acquired Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F 1112, a former Czechoslovakian Air Force plane, to its collection on display. The plane was brought to the United States by a Czech […]

One of Boeing’s Silver Stars is Getting A Make-Over

March 24, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Based out of Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, two Canadair CT-133 Silver Star Mk.3s are used as chase-planes for aircraft that are out on flight test, their unobstructed-view bubble canopies providing excellent visibility for those […]

RAF Surpluses More Tornados

March 21, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Three Panavia Tornado F.3s at the aircraft Maintenance and Storage Unit at RAF Shawbury in England are being disposed of. One plane is heading to RAF Leeming in Yorks while the other two are going […]

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