News about warbird restorations and classic aircraft restorations
EAA SportAir workshops are held around the country and are available to impart the basic skill sets required for the maintenance, repair and restoration of aircraft. Course offerings include Composite Construction, Fabric Covering, Sheet Metal […]
The Defense Department’s Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command has announced that another World War II aircraft, a Grumman J2F-4 Duck, has been found beneath the ice of Greenland. This particular airplane and its three crewmen […]
The EAA AirVenture Museum’s vanishingly rare North American P-64 fighter was started up for the first time in more than 20 years recently and fittingly, it was EAA Founder Paul Poberezny, who acquired the plane […]
The Collings Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts has been on a bit of a fighter acquisition spree of late. As we recently reported, the foundation has taken possession of two Focke-Wulf Fw 190s, one is presently […]
The Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover AFB in Dover, Delaware, has recently completed its restoration of Lockheed L-1049E Super Constellation N1005C. This Super Constellation was built as a civilian model which never saw any […]
The Hangar 11 Collection of the United Kingdom has recently reported that they are fast approaching the point where their Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk G-KITT will be ready for a transit flight to receive her new […]
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 […]
Philippine Mars, one of two surviving Martin JRM Mars out of a total of seven built has been retired and will be flown to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. The large, four-engined […]
The world’s only airworthy De Havilland Mosquito, FB.26 KA114, is returning home to Virginia Beach. Its owner, Jerry Yagen, had sent it to Avspecs Ltd in New Zealand for restoration. Avspecs gave the Mosquito back […]
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 […]
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