Vintage Aviation News

Fighter Rebuilders to Restore ‘Skyblazers’ F-86 Sabre

February 14, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 2

Steve Hinton’s Fighter Rebuilders aircraft restoration workshop is set to restore North American F-86F Sabre 52-4959. This Sabre has dazzled air show crowds for many years adorned in the iconic livery of the Skyblazers aerial demonstration […]

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Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Arrives at Her New Home

April 13, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

While we reported the exciting news this January concerning the first post-restoration flight of Grumman F6F-5 BuNo.78645 at Fighter Rebuilder’s facility in Chino, California, we now have news that Steve Hinton has flown the aircraft […]

Fagen Fighters F6F 5 Navy Hellcat “Death N Destruction” BuNo 78645

Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Flies

January 4, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

When the world bid a happy farewell to 2020, with cautious optimism that 2021 would bring bigger and better things, the warbird community did not have to wait long for the latter. On January 3, […]

Steve Hinton Sr. and Steve Hinton Jr. to be Enshrined in International Air & Space Hall of Fame

October 4, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – San Diego, CA – October 3, 2016 – Steve Hinton Jr., Steve Hinton, Sr., their family, The Boeing Company, Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden, Coast Guard Aviation, Dale Myers, the Aircraft Owners […]

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Fighter Rebuilders to Restore ‘Skyblazers’ F-86 Sabre

Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Arrives at Her New Home

Fagen Fighters’ Hellcat Flies

Steve Hinton Sr. and Steve Hinton Jr. to be Enshrined in International Air & Space Hall of Fame

The CAF Razorback Wing Takes on Vultee BT-13 Restoration Project

How America’s Youth is Rebuilding a WWII B-25 Bomber

The National Naval Aviation Museum Birdcage Corsair Goes on Display

A Chat with Vulture’s Row Aviation Owner Chuck Wahl