• Subscribe to Our Mailing List
  • Sponsors
  • YouTube Channel
  • Events
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • Vintage Aviation News on Facebook
  • Vintage Aviation News on Twitter
  • Vintage Aviation News on YouTube
  • Vintage Aviation News on IG
Vintage Aviation News
Django 729
  • Home
  • Restorations
  • Warbird News
    • Air Shows
    • Events
  • Vintage
  • Aviation Museum News
  • YouTube
  • SPONSORS
    • AirCorps Aviation
    • Platinum Fighter Sales
    • GossHawk Unlimited
    • United Fuel Cells Corporation
    • BARNSTORMER USA – Aviation Clothing Company
    • Django Studios
    • WARBIRD ADVENTURES
  • Newsletter
  • CONTACT US
    • ABOUT US
Latest Warbird News
  • [ December 3, 2023 ] Superfortress Graveyard – The B-29s of China Lake Articles
  • [ December 2, 2023 ] The Fighting Scouts of The Eight Air Force Articles
  • [ December 2, 2023 ] Avro Shackleton ‘Nose Job’ Completed At Newark Air Museum Aviation Museum News
  • [ November 30, 2023 ] Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival Fights The Weather Airshow News
  • [ November 29, 2023 ] Commemorative Air Force Announces The 12 Planes of Christmas Warbirds News
HomeAuthorsJames Kightly (Commissioning Editor)

Articles by James Kightly (Commissioning Editor)

Aviation Museum News

Avro Shackleton ‘Nose Job’ Completed At Newark Air Museum

December 2, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By Zac Yates After four months the scaffolding has been removed from the nose and forward fuselage of Avro Shackleton WR977 at the Newark Air Museum (NAM) near Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. The Shackleton was […]

Airshow News

Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival Fights The Weather

November 30, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By Grant Newman The hard-working management team running the Wings over Wairarapa (WoW) Air Festival cannot seem to get a break. With previous airshows curtailed owing to COVID-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle, this year the team […]

Articles

Tustin Blimp Hangar Fire UPDATE

November 17, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By Adam Estes UPDATE (November 17, 2023): Since the start of the fire at Hangar 1 (the North Hangar) on November 7, as reported HERE, the hangar has by now effectively been completely destroyed. With […]

Warbirds News

Frank Borman – Vintage Flyer

November 16, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 2

By Stephen Chapis. In the minds of the general public, Frank Borman, Colonel, USAF (Ret), will be remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, when he, along with Command Module Pilot James A. Lovell, Jr., […]

Aircraft Restoration

Historic Feature: Col Borman’s Kingcobra

November 16, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

We present this feature article from the July 1998 archives of Warbirds Worldwide Journal No.45 as a tribute to the late Colonel Frank Borman, USAF and astronaut who passed away in November 2023. [EAA Statement. […]

Vintage Aviation

Aussie DC-2 Open Day

November 10, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 2

Report by Commissioning Editor James Kightly At Albury airport, NSW, Australia, on Saturday 28 October 2023, the Uiver Restoration Project opened its doors to the public for its major annual open day. The Project is […]

Warbirds News

Fire Consumes Iconic WWII Blimp Hangar

November 8, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

Report by Adam Estes In the early morning hours of November 7, 2023, a fire started inside one of two World War II era blimp hangars on the former site of Marine Corps Air Station […]

Aviation Museum News

Open Cockpits At Moorabbin Museum

November 8, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

The Moorabbin Air Museum, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is hosting its first Family Open Cockpit Weekend since the end of the Covid Lockdowns. It will be a two-day event for the first time, on the […]

Airshow News

California’s Airfest 2023

November 3, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By Adam Estes. The October 14-15, 2023 weekend saw the second annual Central Coast Airfest at Santa Maria Public Airport, about 140 miles (225 km) northwest from Los Angeles, California. The event presents numerous aircraft […]

Airshow News

A Kiwi’s First – and Final – Flag at Reno

November 1, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 5

A Personal Perspective on visiting the final Reno Air Races by Zac Yates As an aviation-obsessed child there were a few VHS cassettes I’d watch on loop – airshows, films, documentaries – and one that […]

Posts navigation

1 2 … 5 »
WA 300

Latest Warbirds News

Warbirds News

Commemorative Air Force Announces The 12 Planes of Christmas

November 29, 2023 0

The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is again holding their “12 Planes of Christmas,” an online giving campaign providing an opportunity to aid in the restoration and maintenance of the aircraft as well as learn more […]

Warbird Restoration News

Warbird Restorations

Movie Memphis Belle Maintenance Update

By Adam Estes Of all the aircraft of WWII, few have had quite the cultural impact as the B-17, known in history as the “Memphis Belle.” This veteran of the 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air [...]
  • Kiwi Mustang Flies Again After 66 Years

  • Historic Feature: Col Borman’s Kingcobra

  • Rare Boeing P-26 Peashooter Replica Added to Spirit of Flight Museum

  • Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’ – Restoration Update 202

Advertisement

Advertisement

DDS 300x500

Advertisement

YouTube Channel

Django 300x500
Platinum 300x500
DDS 300x500

Advertisement

Django 300x500
Platinum 300x500
DDS 300x500
Vintage Aviation News
Vintage Aviation News is a company founded by a group of passionate aviation enthusiasts who love the history and technology Aviation and Flying Museums preserve for the public. It is our intention to play a role in safeguarding the heritage of these beautiful machines by providing increased awareness and education through the use of internet based digital media.
Your One Stop Shop For Graphic Design, Branding and Aviation Art
Get Social With Us
  • Vintage Aviation News on Facebook
  • Vintage Aviation News on Twitter
  • Vintage Aviation News on YouTube
  • Vintage Aviation News on IG
  • About Wintage Aviation News
  • YouTube Channel
  • Sponsors
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2017 - Warbirds News. All Rights Reserved.