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  • B-17 Chuckie sold to MAM

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    In late october, the Vintage Flying Museum’s (VFM) Fort Worth, Texas-based B-17 Flying Fortress 44-8543 Chuckie was sold to Jerry Yagen’s Military Aviation Museum at Virginia Beach, Virginia. The bomber has not flown for two years, and is currently ...

  • Vulcan appeal success

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The Vulcan to the Sky Trust’s October appeal campaign raised the £400,000 required to keep Avro Vulcan B.2 XH558 maintained in flying condition into 2011. The Trust is now working on new funding initiatives that will get the much loved V-bomber throu...

  • Lancaster nose art unveiled

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At the calgary Aerospace Museum on November 10, newly-applied nose art was unveiled on Avro Lancaster B.X FM136. The Lady Orchid scheme replicates that seen on Lancaster KB895, flown by prominent Calgarian Flt Lt Ron Jenkins with 434 Sqn from RAF Croft ...

  • Goodbye Biggin Hill Air Fair

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    On November 7, Biggin Hill Airport Ltd (BHAL), the operators of Kent’s legendary former Fighter Command base, announced that the International Air Fair will not take place in 2011. BHAL will replace the much-loved two-day Air Fair with a one-day “Op...

  • Spitfire recovered in France

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The amazingly complete wreckage of Supermarine Spitfire IX MJ789 was recovered from the Orne estuary near Caen in Normandy on November 6. Two days earlier, the remains of the Australian pilot who ditched the fighter on June 11, 1944, Flt Lt Henry Lacey ...

  • Hurricane unveiled

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Former Hawker test pilot Duncan Simpson and Lord Trefgarne unveiled Hawker Hurricane IIA Z2389 at the Brooklands Museum on November 6. The historic fighter has been restored over the last 13 years by a team led by Roy Lomax. The Hurricane will ultimatel...

  • Otto pusher to fly again

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Oberschleissheim airfield, just north of Munich, a six-man team from the Deutsches Museum is forging ahead with construction of a replica Otto pusher biplane, a type originally built at the airfield in 1913. It is hoped that the machine will be flyin...

  • PBY gets wings

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    On November 4 at the US Navy Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington, the restoration of Consolidated PBY-5A N84857 reached a milestone when volunteers from the PBY Memorial Foundation (PBYMF) fitted the amphibian with its wings. The combat-veteran mach...

  • Kawasaki progressing in Oz

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Work on a limited production run of three Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien fighters is gathering pace at Murray Griffith’s Precision Aerospace Productions (PAP) workshops at Wangaratta in Victoria, Australia, reports Giuseppe Picarella. Renowned for its Curtiss P...

  • NEAM A-26 gets bomber nose

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The restoration of combat veteran Douglas A-26C Invader 43-22499 to its original World War Two configuration is proceeding apace at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, USA. The solid nose that had been fitted post-war has been repl...

  • Harvard milestone

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    AT Bruntingthorpe Airfield, the only North American Harvard II on the British register, RCAF 3019/G-CPPM, now sits on its undercarriage for the first time in 62 years. Owned by Steve Wilch, the trainer was delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ap...

  • More space at Pima

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Anew 20,000ft² exhibition gallery is now complete at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona, USA, just a year after construction began. The gallery has a strong popular  culture theme, with many of the exhibits having connections with the film...

  • Skywarriors scrapped

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Van Nuys Airport, California, USA, four of the Raytheon Flight Test Operations fleet of Douglas A-3 Skywarriors were broken up in September. The aircraft were operated on behalf of the Naval Air Systems Command. One A-3 is scheduled to be flown to th...

  • Gotha for rebuild

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The world’s only surviving Gotha Go 145 trainer returned to its birthplace in the town of Gotha, central Germany, on October 18. It will now be restored by a team from Gotha Fahrzeugtechnik, a successor of the original company, which builds metal mast...

  • Airacobra arrives at Niagara

    Created: Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Former Soviet Air Force Bell P-39Q  Airacobra 44-2911 arrived at the Niagara Aerospace Museum in Buffalo, New York, USA, on October 21. The museum is housed in part of the old Bell Aircraft Factory, and the P-39 is now being cleaned and conserved i...

  • Oldest DC-3 to fly again

    Created: Monday, 20 December 2010 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    With the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the Douglas DC-3 approaching on December 17, plans for restoration of the oldest surviving example of the breed are being drawn up in the USA. Owned by Frank Moss and his sons Glen and Charlie, DC-3 N133D...

  • Combat veteran Spitfire for Germany

    Created: Monday, 20 December 2010 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Supermarine spitfire Tr.9 MJ772 will return to Europe in November after 36 years in the USA. It will be overhauled by Meier Motors at Bremgarten, near Freiburg, before delivery to a German owner. The machine had been on display with the Experimental Air...

  • John Fairey accident report published

    Created: Monday, 20 December 2010 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The Air AcCidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report into the crash of Percival Provost G-AWVF just north of Waddington on July 8, 2009, was published on October 15. The aeroplane suffered a catastrophic engine failure and inflight fire, before crashing a...

  • Historic Flight Foundation Spitfire flies

    Created: Monday, 20 December 2010 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Supermarine Spitfire IX SL633 made its first post- restoration flight at Paine Field, Washington, USA, on October 15 with John Romain at the controls. Restoration of the fighter, which is owned by John Sessions’ Historic Flight Foundation, began in 20...

  • Me 262 trainer arrives at Pensacola

    Created: Monday, 20 December 2010 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a Werknr 110639, above, arrived at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida, USA on September 30. The only genuine two-seat trainer ’262 in the world, it had previously resided at the Wings of Freedom Museum a...