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Columbine II Restoration – February 2021 Update

February 22, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 1

Following the profound shock and sadness we all felt in learning of Karl Stoltzfus untimely passing last November, there was an understandable concern over what his death might mean to the continuation of various historical […]

Columbine II – Restoration Update June 2020

June 29, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

By Richard Mallory Allnutt (editor) Echoing loudly across the expansive, high-bay hangar, one can hear the staccato clatter of rivet guns and high-pitched squeal of air-powered drills tearing into sheet aluminum. There is a whole […]

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Columbine II Arrives at Her New Home!!!

March 24, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 15

Following an epic, year-long maintenance effort in Marana, Arizona, Dynamic Aviation has successfully flown their Lockheed VC-121A Constellation Columbine II to her new home, in bucolic Bridgewater, Virginia. President Eisenhower’s former transport, and the first to […]

Columbine II – First Flight – And She’s On Her Way HOME!!!

March 21, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 25

In the stifling, mid-day heat of Saturday, March 19th the hard-earned dreams of a year-long effort saw the first post-restoration flight of the Lockheed VC-121A Constellation known as Columbine II. As the graceful, silver bird […]

VC-121A ‘Columbine II’ Will Fly Again Soon!!!

March 12, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 6

It has been some time since we have reported on the progress Dynamic Aviation is making with their efforts to resurrect one of President Eisenhower’s personal transport aircraft from his time in the White House: […]

Dynamic Aviation Will Purchase Eisenhower’s Columbine II

April 24, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 3

As our readers are well aware, over the past few months, a team from Dynamic Aviation in Bridgewater, Virginia has been hard at work trying to resurrect President Eisenhower’s VC-121A Constellation known as Columbine II […]

Columbine II – 2nd Mid-April Update

April 19, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

Close on the heals of our mid-April update regarding the engineering work that Dynamic Aviation is performing on president Eisenhower’s VC-121 Constellation Columbine II, we have news that the team has paused their work for a […]

Columbine II – mid-April Update

April 15, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

WarbirdsNews has been reporting regularly on Dynamic Aviation’s efforts to resuscitate the former presidential VC-121A Constellation known as ‘Columbine II’ in Marana, Arizona. The team of engineers have been hard at work on the aircraft […]

Columbine II – Update

March 26, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 5

WarbirdsNews has another brief update on progress with Dynamic Aviation‘s evaluation of VC-121A Constellation Columbine II in Marana, Arizona. In a recent email to Columbine II’s owners, Dynamic Aviation’s Karl Stoltzfus stated, “We have found the airframe […]

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Presidential Connie Columbine II to Fly Again?

February 19, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 3

Recently, there was quite the buzz on the internet about the possible return to flight of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential transport, the Lockheed C-121A Constellation known to the world as Columbine II. News reports stated that […]

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