News about warbird restorations and classic aircraft restorations
As twilight approached on a sultry, summer’s eve four days ago the Aircraft Restoration Company’s John Romain started up the Bristol Mercury engine in Westland Lysander Mk.IIITT V9312 in preparation for her first flight since […]
WarbirdsNews has just received the August, 2018 report from Chuck Cravens concerning the restoration of the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47D Thunderbolt 42-27609 at AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota. We thought our readers would be very interested to see […]
The brutish Bristol Beaufighter is a rare beast these days, with just a handful of complete survivors, and none currently in airworthy condition. The biggest problem with getting a Beau’ flying again, outside of their […]
It has been some time since we have carried an update on progress with Warbirds Of Glory’s North American B-25J Mitchell serial 44-30733. Better known as The Sandbar Mitchell, most readers will remember when her […]
Warbird Adventures unveiled their newest acquisition to an unsuspecting crowd in Kissimmee, Florida today, a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. With two seats, and a full set of dual controls, Warbird Adventures will offer their Warhawk to the […]
We have been following the restoration of North American XP-82 Twin Mustang 44-83887 at Tom Reilly’s workshop in Douglas, Georgia for some years now, with updates on the project coming on a near-monthly basis during […]
Over the past year, we have periodically presented reports by Chuck Cravens detailing the restoration on an ultra-rare Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita WWII advanced, multi-engine trainer. As mentioned in the previous articles, the project belongs to […]
WarbirdsNews has just received the latest report from Chuck Cravens on the restoration of the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47D Thunderbolt 42-27609 at AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota. We thought our readers would be very interested to see how […]
We were amazed today when we saw some fabulous images of a surprisingly complete and intact single seat variant of the Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik rising to the surface of a lake in Russia. While we […]
The McDonnell-Douglas Phantom II has a long and proud heritage in air arms around the world. While her role in Britain’s Royal Air Force is well known, perhaps less so is that a small number […]
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