News about warbird restorations and classic aircraft restorations
WarbirdsNews has just received the February, 2019 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 […]
Well, the news we were hoping for has arrived. Jerry Yagen’s Bell P-39F Airacobra 41-2175 under restoration for the past few years at Pioneer Aero Ltd. in Ardmore, New Zealand has successfully flown for the first […]
Back in October, 2017 we published a report HERE concerning the Vintage Aviation Museum’s acquisition of a rare Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon that served in the US Navy as Bu.37276. The aircraft is currently located in […]
Fokker D.XXI Fighter Replica to Fly in 2020 by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Editor) The Dutch aviation pioneer, Anthony Fokker, played an incredibly important role in the development of both military and civil aviation during the […]
As some readers will have noticed, on February 4th, Pioneer Aero Ltd. ran the Allison V-1710-85 engine on the Bell P-39 Airacobra that they have been restoring at their workshop in Ardmore, New Zealand. This […]
WarbirdsNews has just received the January, 2019 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 […]
After a significant search for a suitable airframe, the Norwegian Spitfire Foundation (NSF) has just announced that they are embarking upon the restoration of a Supermarine Spitfire with Norwegian wartime provenance, with the goal of returning […]
The moment which every WarbirdsNews reader will have eagerly anticipated since we first started reporting on the project five years ago finally arrived with the first “official” post-restoration flight of Tom Reilly’s North American XP-82 Twin Mustang […]
WarbirdsNews has just received the December, 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 Yankee Air Museum’s Republic F-84F Thunderstreak Restoration by Barry Levine The Yankee Air Museum has recently completed the restoration of their Republic F-84F-35-GK Thunderstreak. The 2nd generation jet fighter was built under license at General […]
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