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Finding Loren – Excavation of P-47 Wreck in Italy

July 11, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

AirCorps Aviation, the aircraft restoration experts in Bemidji, Minnesota, have announced a fascinating and poignant project which will unfold over the next two weeks in northern Italy. They are supporting an effort inspired by Hans […]

Heritage Flight: Heroes, Inspiration, Joy and Closure

April 11, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 1

By TSgt Brandon Shapiro When 93-year-old Fred Roberts walked into the bar at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, all eyes turned toward him and all conversations stopped. Roberts was a World War II P-51 […]

Capt Valmore J Beaudrault P 47D 20 RE 44 19713 Priscilla Beaudrault

First For The Ninth, The Story of The First Aerial Victory Over a Me 262

November 25, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 1

From an original article by Stephen Chapis. On October 2, 1944, 21-year-old Captain Valmore Jay Beaudrault of Milford, New Hampshire became the first Ninth Air Force pilot to score an aerial victory over a […]

AeroCinema – New This Week

February 17, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 0

The P-47 Thunderbolt earned its reputation as a rugged workhorse of the United States Army Air force in WWII, striking down close to 4000 enemy aircraft. Its success would solidify the status of Republic […]

P-47 Thunderbolt

Finding Loren – Excavation of P-47 Wreck in Italy

Heritage Flight: Heroes, Inspiration, Joy and Closure

First For The Ninth, The Story of The First Aerial Victory Over a Me 262

AeroCinema – New This Week

Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group Achieves Major Milestone

AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Restoration Report – Fall 2024 Update

Mid America Flight Museum Releases Update on B-17G ‘Thunderbird’

Matt’s Gnat: A Red Arrows Jet Restoration Downunder