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This category is dedicated to the rescue,preservation and restoration of Warbird aircraft.

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Nose Of Comet Mk2 Saved by Volunteers

January 7, 2014 WarbirdsNews 0

Ian Wilson, a former Royal Air Force mechanic updated us on the Comet Mk2 named Sagittarius. Back in November the nose of the Comet Mk2 was saved by the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection (BDAC) by […]

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Italian Reggiane RE.2000 Update

December 26, 2013 WarbirdsNews 0

Few weeks ago we reported the successful rescue of an Italian Re.2000 which  had sunk in the waters of Portovenere (La Spezia) in 1943 . The operation was carried out for free by the company […]

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B-25 “Sandbar Mitchell” Update

December 23, 2013 WarbirdsNews 1

Moose Peterson reports. It took flight February, 1945 and in June, 1969 it came to an end. The B-25J 44-30733 saw military life as a trainer and civilian life as a fire bomber. July of […]

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Video Of The Reggiane Re.2000 “Falco” Recovery

December 7, 2013 WarbirdsNews 1

After just three days of planning  in the afternoon of Wednesday, December 4, 2013 , the Company Micoperi proceeded to recover the wreckage of the fighter of the Regia Aeronautica Reggiane Re.2000 sank off Porto […]

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Reggiane Re.2000 “Falco” Recovered From Italian Waters

December 5, 2013 WarbirdsNews 6

The “Falco” ( Italian for hawk) has come to light: yesterday the mission to recover the fighter Re.2000 was successfully completed. The  Reggiane’s fighter  had sunk in the waters of Portovenere (La Spezia) in 1943. […]

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The Hunt For the Spitfires In Burma Continues

December 4, 2013 WarbirdsNews 2

This morning we have received an email from Vincent Miles, a manager with Claridon Group Ltd, with the following title “CLARIDON GROUP SAVE THE SPITFIRE PROJECT IN BURMA”. No need to say that this got […]

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WW1 Bomber Wings Found in Garage

November 27, 2013 WarbirdsNews 2

PRESS RELEASE-The unique remains of a First World War Handley Page O/400 bomber aircraft have been saved by a team from the RAF Museum.Members of the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre at the RAF Museum Cosford, […]

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Campaign To Salvage The P-38 Lightning “Maid Of Harlech,”

November 16, 2013 WarbirdsNews 13

The nephew of a pilot who crashed his Second World War fighter plane near Harlech is campaigning for the wreckage to be salvaged and placed in a museum. The rare United States Army Air Force […]

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Sahara’s P-40 Kittyhawk Update

November 16, 2013 WarbirdsNews 2

In 2012 a RAF fighter plane thought lost in the sands of time after its pilot crash landed in the desert during World War Two has been discovered in what has been described as the […]

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Vulcan XH558’s Pledge Target Achieved

November 3, 2013 WarbirdsNews 0

This has been both a nail-biting and and  exciting week for the Vulcan XH558’s team as they watched the funding gauges accelerate towards the targets that will allow XH558 to be prepared for flight once […]

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While this news is a little old, we thought our readers would enjoy hearing details about the recent addition to the National Naval Aviation Museum. In the year of COVID-19, air show crowds around the […]

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