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Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA presents Fork-Tailed Devil on Saturday, April 6. Another installment of their monthly Living History Flying Days, this event showcases the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Its fierce reputation earned […]
Progress is being reported in the restoration of owner Ron Fagen’s North American B-25J Mitchell 44-86698, Registration number N325N. Formerly going by the name “Sunday Punch” and known for its unusual solid nose that bristled […]
Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA presents another installment of their Living History Event Day on Saturday, May 18. Named Regia Aeronautica: Italian Aircraft, the event features a discussion panel of connoisseurs: historians, […]
In July 2007 after 65 years under the sands a P-38 was discovered off the coast of northern Wales. Uncovered by tides and shifting sands, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning had spent 65 years in its […]
Among the longest serving carrier-based jet aircraft in history, the Douglas EA-3b Skywarrior entered service in the mid-1950s and was retired in 1991. For many years after its introduction, it was also the heaviest aircraft […]
Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso N427CV (the registration number is apparently a nod to the plane’s original Canadian Vickers construction number of CV-427) has recently completed a complete stem to stern restoration in Rand, South Africa, […]
A former Japanese Imperial Navy Yokosuka D4Y Suisei dive-bomber (Allied reporting name “Judy”) fired up her engine for the first time in almost 70 years recently at the Planes of Fame (POF) Museum and restoration […]
Major Thomas C. Griffin (known simply by friends and family as Tom) passed away Tuesday, February 26 in a Kentucky Veterans Affairs nursing home. The 96 year old earned his stripes navigating a B-25 bomber […]
With Indian Air Force livery still evident, Hawker Tempest II MW404 arrived at Hooks Memorial Airport near Houston, Texas to its new owner Chris Miller who had shipped the plane from the United Kingdom. Over […]
In a very cold, windy and snowy day ( what snow in Atlanta!?) I took few shoots of the B-17 replica of the ‘Memphis Belle’ maintained by the Liberty Foundation. This is the history of […]
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