News about warbird restorations and classic aircraft restorations
The world’s sole remaining airworthy Avro Vulcan, “The Spirit of Great Britain” XH558 was reported to be in its last season of performing at air shows this year due to extensive work that would be […]
As part of a program where the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has restored and is putting on long-term loan six RAAF General Dynamics F-111 Aardvarks to deserving museums around the country, the Queensland Air […]
With salvage consistently hampered by poor weather and seabed geology that prevented the fitment of their carefully-engineered lifting frame, the Royal Air Force Museum nonetheless successfully managed to wrest a Dornier Do 17 from the […]
An ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Grumman TBF-1 Avenger aircraft that the Gisborne Aviation Preservation Society (GAPS) of Gisborne, New Zealand been looking after for the past 14 years has just been officially gifted […]
The National Airline History Museum of Kansas City, Missouri is on a drive to raise $3.2 million for the restoration of its Lockheed Constellation and to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Howard Hughes’ record-setting cross-country […]
In an update on the Alberta Aviation Museum‘s recently acquired Canadair CF-104 Starfighter that we’ve been following, the plane has been undergoing restoration and the fuselage has been pulled on its own wheels with a […]
On May 17, 2013 a Grumman HU-16 Albatross displayed by the Museo dell’Aria del Castello di San Pelagio (Air Museum of San Pelagio Castle) in Padua, Italy was wrecked and turned into a heap of […]
As we recently reported, this year marks the centenary of Italian aerospace firm Alenia Aermacchi, which got it’s start in 1913 with a crew of 10 employees building the first Nieuport-Macchi monoplane in 1913. In […]
Garbiele Lanzo Reports: We had the opportunity to visit the Jonathan Collection in the province of Treviso, in the northeast of Italy, at the private airstrip that the Jonathan Collection Foundation calls home. The foundation, […]
As we’ve been following here at Warbirds News, The Hangar 11 Collection in North Weald, UK has been in the process of stripping their Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk G-KITT back to bare metal for a new […]
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