Vintage Aviation News

Buccaneer Arrives at SAAF Museum

April 8, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

The South African Air Force Museum in Ysterplaat, Cape Town, took delivery of Hawker Siddeley S.50 Buccaneer 416 recently. The jet had previously been residing at Cape Town International Airport, though it hadn’t flown since […]

Connecticut Air and Space Center Still Recovering from Hurricane Sandy

April 4, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Connecticut Air and Space Center (CASC) in Stratford, Connecticut has been repairing the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy which brought historic devastation to the Northeast this past October. The facility’s storage and restoration building […]

The Starfighter Has Arrived At The Alberta Aviation Museum

March 31, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

As previously reported by Warbirds News, the Alberta Aviation Museum has acquired an F-104 Starfighter from The Netherlands. The Starfighter was delivered in two shipping containers this past Friday morning. Tim Hinderks, executive director of […]

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 […]

Rare Flying Bomb Completes Restoration

March 27, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Lashenden Air Warfare Museum’s extremely rare Fieseler Fi 103R-IV Reichenberg, which was essentially a piloted version of the V-1 flying bomb, recently completed a five year restoration by Auktionshaus fur historic Technik in Geisenhausen, […]

South Australian Aviation Museum Takes Delivery of Retired RAAF F-111 Bomber

March 19, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

Port Adelaide just acquired a special aircraft: a retired F-111C jet bomber capable of speeds two times greater than the speed of sound. It arrived March 15 by truck from Amberley RAAF Base near Ipswich, […]

Dyson Applies for Plane Display

March 18, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Dyson, the company famous for its revolutionary vacuums and other household appliances has submitted a request to their local planning commission to place an English Electric Lightning F.1A on display outside the visitors entrance to […]

Alberta Aviation Museum Edmonton ATZ crest2

F-104 Starfighter Makes Much-Anticipated Arrival At Alberta Aviation Museum Later This Month

March 17, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

An F-104 Starfighter will find its new home in the Alberta Aviation Museum located in Edmonton, Alberta on March 26. This comes after a year-long fundraising drive to raise the capital for purchasing it: tens […]

Canberra to go on Display in Florida

March 16, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

An English Electric Canberra, TT.18 WJ574 has recently been moved to the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Titusville, Florida and is being prepped for static display. One of the most popular and successful of […]

Fantasy of Flight Opens Second Storage Facility to Visitors

March 15, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Polk City, Florida-based aviation attraction Fantasy of Flight opened a storage facility onsite to visitors last year and it proved to be so popular with patrons that they now have opened a second storage hangar […]

Static Display