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PJ Aviation’s Pristine, Fully-Restored, Combat Veteran CCF Harvard Mk.IV

April 23, 2019 Editor 0

PJ Aviation, a provider of aviation brokerage, acquisition, marketing and consulting services, is pleased to announce the availability for purchase of a Canadian-built Harvard Mk.IV. The aircraft has a remarkable service history, and has just completed […]

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SAAF to Celebrate 80 Years of Dakota Excellence

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PRESS RELEASE – The South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) 35 Squadron is to celebrate 80 years of Dakota Excellence by hosting a formal banquet inside their hangar at AFB Ysterplaat on 5 December. The type […]

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Lee County Mosquito Control DC-3C-TP

November 30, 2014 WarbirdsNews 1

As most WarbirdsNews readers are well aware, the Douglas DC-3, along with its more prolific military variants, is an extraordinarily capable aircraft. Adapted from the Douglas Sleeper Transport, or DST, Donald Douglas could never have imagined […]

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The ‘Roseland’ Spitfire – Restoration Update

November 26, 2014 WarbirdsNews 6

On Tuesday, November 11th, Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau, Quebec attached the freshly restored starboard wing to the newly arrived fuselage of their Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX. This was a significant step forwards in the […]

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Friends of the SAAF Museum Restoring a Blackburn Buccaneer

August 6, 2013 WarbirdsNews 5

The Friends of the SAAF Museum located at AFB Ysterplaat in Cape Town, South Africa are in the process of restoring a Blackburn Buccaneer. One of sixteen S.50 Buccaneer variants flown by the South African […]

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UK Shackleton Preservation Trust Restoring Growler to Flying Condition

June 25, 2013 WarbirdsNews 7

Serving the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1951 to 1991 and the South African Air Force (SAAF) from 1957 to 1984, with a design lineage that stretches back to the Avro Lancaster bomber, the Shackleton […]

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VWoC Restoration of Former SAAF Spitfire Moving Along

May 5, 2013 WarbirdsNews 0

Gatineau, Quebec-based Vintage Wings of Canada, in addition to the restoration of their Hawker Hurricane on which we recently reported, is also well along on their restoration of Supermarine Spitfire IX TE294 which most recently […]

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AT-6C Texan Returns to the Sky in France

April 26, 2013 WarbirdsNews 0

Emerging after a 15-year restoration, a North American AT-6C Texan has just recently successfully completed its test flights in Angers, France.

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Buccaneer Arrives at SAAF Museum

April 8, 2013 WarbirdsNews 3

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 […]

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Tragic Crash of South African Douglas C-47TP Dakota

December 15, 2012 WarbirdsNews 0

A South African National Defence Force Douglas C-47TP Dakota 6840 crashed in bad weather near Giants Castle in the Drakensburg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on December 5th, resulting in the loss of life for […]

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B-29 Doc Announces July 2021 Tour Schedule

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PRESS RELEASE – The July 2021 tour schedule for B-29 Doc has been announced and it includes stops in seven cities across six states, ending with Doc’s appearance at EAA AirVenture. Here’s the list of […]

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Lightnings Downunder – P-38 Restoration Report

Our good friend John Parker from WarbirdsOnline recently visited Historical Aircraft Restoration Ltd’s workshop in Albion Park, New South Wales, Australia. The workshop sits inside one of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s hangars and is run [...]
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Blue Angel On The Move: Yankee Air Museum Adds F/A-18 Hornet

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Following close on the heals of our report covering the recent repaint of the Yankee Air Museum’s airworthy B-25 Mitchell, we have just received word that the museum has taken delivery of a retired F/A-18C […]

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