Inside Issue #86 of Warbird Digest
Inside issue #86 of Warbird Digest. Flight Log – UPDATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD – Progress on a Collings Foundation’s genuine Fw 190 restoration and the tragic loss of its B-17G NINE-O-NINE Working Warbirds – […]
Year: 2019
Warbird Restorations
Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47 Update – December, 2019
Warbird Digest has just received the December, 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 […]
Airshow News
WWII 75th Anniversary Celebrations – Huge Plans For EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2020
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — (December 19, 2019) — EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2020 will feature expanded warbird flying activities as the annual Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in convention commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end […]
Aviation Museum News
Qantas Founders Museum’s Super Constellation Unveiled
For the past five years, we have been following the saga of the Qantas Founders Museum in Australia and their efforts to recover and restore a Lockheed Constellation in the livery of an original Qantas […]
Airshow News
RCAF Snowbirds Returning to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2020
RCAF Snowbirds Returning to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2020 Renowned military flight team marks 50 years of performances next summer EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — (December 10, 2019) — The Canadian Forces Snowbirds, one […]
Warbird Restorations
CAF P-40N Warhawk Restoration Update
The Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is currently going through refurbishment following a landing mishap earlier this year, but progress in the restoration is gathering pace and should see the aircraft flying again […]
Warbirds News
CAF Preparing For ‘Arsenal of Democracy Flyover’ 2020
Nearly five years ago now, in May, 2015, we celebrated the end of the Second World War with a massive flypast of Washington, DC which featured dozens of vintage WWII military aircraft. Dubbed the Arsenal […]
Aviation Museum News
High level aircraft cleaning at the RAF Museum Cosford
The annual high level aircraft cleaning and inspection will take place at the RAF Museum Cosford from Monday 6 to Friday 10 January 2020. Work will be focused on the suspended aircraft displayed within the […]
Warbird Restorations
Sabre Reborn – Classic Fighters of America F-86F – Restoration Update
Back in July, we reported HERE on progress with the restoration of North American F-86F Sabre 52-5112 at Classic Fighters of America in Titusville, Florida. A lot has happened in the interim, and we thought […]
Warbird Restorations
RAAF Combat Veteran Spitfire Under Restoration in Australia
We thought our readers would be interested in a piece by our good friend John Parker at Warbirds Online who reports on the arrival of three new restoration projects at Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR) in […]
