Warbird Restorations
Mid America Flight Museum Releases Update on B-17G ‘Thunderbird’
The Fortress will receive a new color scheme and the name ‘We the People.’ […]
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Warbird Restorations
B-17G Flying Fortress ‘Thunderbird’ – Restoration Update – June 2023
As most readers will remember, Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 44-83718 (N900RW) has been undergoing restoration within a hangar at the Erickson Aircraft Collection in Madras, Oregon since its arrival some three years ago. This aircraft, […]
Warbird Restorations
B-17G Flying Fortress ‘Thunderbird’ – Status Update – September/October 2022
by Scott A. Thompson of Aero Vintage B-17G 44-83718 (N900RW), most recently known as Thunderbird, remains under extensive rebuild in an Erickson Aircraft Collection hangar in Madras, Oregon. AeroVintage’s contributor Connor Bond visited and viewed […]
Aviation Museum News
Lone Star Flight Museum Announces The Sale Of The B-17 Thunderbird
PRESS RELEASE – The Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the Mid America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas (MAFM) whereby LSFM has agreed to sell […]
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Mid America Flight Museum Acquires Grumman Duck
Scott Glover’s Mid America Flight Museum has just secured a truly historic aircraft for their collection, the magnificently restored Grumman J2F-4 Duck Bu.1649. This Duck was present at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, and flew search and rescue […]
Aircraft Restoration
Columbine II Arrives at Her New Home!!!
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 […]
Aircraft Restoration
Columbine II – Homeward Flight Update – 21 March, 2016
As these words were being typed, Dynamic Aviation’s magnificent Lockheed VC-121A Constellation, Columbine II was in the air just east of El Paso, Texas. She is on the way to Mount Pleasant, Texas from her long-time […]
Aircraft Restoration
Columbine II – First Flight – And She’s On Her Way HOME!!!
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 […]
Aircraft Restoration
VC-121A ‘Columbine II’ Will Fly Again Soon!!!
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: […]
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Columbine II – Update
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 […]