News about warbird restorations and classic aircraft restorations
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 […]
From our good friend John Parker at Warbirds Online comes a recent report on the restoration of Bristol Beaufort A9-141 at the Australian Aviation Heritage Center at Caboolture in Queensland, Australia. The Beaufort was a […]
We at WarbirdsNews have been fascinated by the rapid growth taking place at AirCorps Aviation. We love what they have been doing to resurrect old aircraft over the past few years, and they have fast […]
As most readers will know, the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation finally got their Boeing C-97G Stratocruiser flying again in November, 2017. This was just the first step in bringing the aircraft up to fully operational […]
Doc’s Friends has just announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has granted the group’s request for an exemption and approved the group’s Living History Flight Experience (LHFE) program. This will allow Doc’s Friends to begin […]
Tucked away in a hangar in Brisbane, Australia, a pair of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Boomerangs are slowly coming back together, with one of them, CA-12 A46-54, coming very close to completion. A46-54 rolled off CAC’s […]
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc JG891 took to the skies again in England for the first time in some years on July 6th, with a successful hop at Duxford Airfield in Cambridgeshire. Regular WarbirdsNews contributor George Land […]
The world’s sole surviving Brewster-built Corsair took to the skies again for the first time on July 4th – the perfect day for this moment! This is a remarkable day which many thought might never happen […]
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 […]
Yesterday, June 28th, 2018 Air Leasing Ltd. successfully test flew Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchon C.4K-105 for the first time following their overhaul of the airframe at Sywell Aerodrome in England. She looks beautiful in her new markings […]
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