by Richard Mallory Allnutt The Blackbushe Heritage Trust (BHT) is in the process of saving a very rare Vickers Viking airliner. Stored outdoors for decades in Austria, most recently in Bad Vöslau, the now-disassembled Viking […]
Translated report – Many thanks to José Manuel Gil, ‘Sandglass Patrol’ Just two months past the centenary marking the first successful autogyro flight, a modern replica of that same aircraft, a Cierva C.4 Autogiro*, flew […]
As many readers will know, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWH) in Mount Hope, Ontario received a marvelous gift from the Canada Aviation & Space Museum last October, in the donation of Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVIe TE214. With […]
A few weeks ago, we published a story by Adam Estes describing the history of the original Curtiss JN-4D Jenny presently undergoing restoration at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. […]
by Nigel Hitchman & James Kightly The team from Avspecs Ltd. has just flown de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide ZK-AKU following a multi-year rebuild effort at Ardmore Airport in Auckland, New Zealand. Ryan Southam took the vintage aircraft up […]
Beech 18, N13JC, is currently under a return-to-flight program at the Vintage Flying Museum (VFM) of Fort Worth, Texas. The Twin Beech, a 1954 Beechcraft E18S-9700, construction number BA-31, was gifted to VFM several years […]
On Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February 2023, the prestigious British aircraft institution ‘The Shuttleworth Collection’ will be opening the doors to its engineering workshop; allowing members of the public a “unique opportunity to explore […]
The Experimental Aircraft Association’s Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor is one of just a handful of airworthy examples remaining of this iconic, 1920s aircraft. Affectionately known as the “Tin Goose” the type was one of America’s first […]
The Lockheed 10 Electra airliner was an important type in aviation history, and the first aircraft the renowned designer Kelly Johnson worked on for the company where he was to make his name. Of the […]
by Adam Estes With the Flying Leathernecks Aviation Museum edging closer to reopening at its original home within the grounds of former Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro in Irvine, California, it is interesting […]
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