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  • New La Ferté hangar to open in June

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:23 Author: Jane Hyde
    At La Ferté-Alais, 30 miles south of Paris, a long-awaited new building project will soon begin at the Musée Volant Jean Salis. Phase One, a new 21,500ft² hangar, will be completed in time for the annual airshow on June 11–12. It will house a World...

  • Rare DST repainted

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:22 Author: Jane Hyde
    A Rare Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST), one of only seven survivors of 40 built, was being repainted at Schellville airport in northern California, USA, during January. Owned by Lee Schaller, N139D has been at Schellville for more than a quarter of a ce...

  • Swift arrives at Brooklands

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:20 Author: Jane Hyde
    The fuselage of the former world speed record-holding Supermarine Swift F.4, WK198, arrived at the Brooklands Museum at Weybridge, Surrey, on February 3. The machine is on loan to Brooklands from Unimetal Industries, and had previously been on show at t...

  • Japanese reshuffle at NASM

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:18 Author: Jane Hyde
    A divine wind of change is sweeping through the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Paul E. Garber Restoration and Storage Facility, in Suitland, Maryland, reports Joe Picarella, as three of the 11 stored Japanese aircraft within the facility are b...

  • Corsair and Spitfire rebuilds progress in Germany

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:16 Author: Jane Hyde
    At the Meier Motors hangar at Bremgarten, south-west Germany, the rebuild of Max Alpha Aviation’s combat-veteran Vought F4U-5NL BuNo 124541 back to its original configuration is almost complete. Between 1994-2000 the fighter was converted to French ...

  • Lockheed Vega to fly again

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:15 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Marana Airport in Tucson, Arizona, Lockheed Vega NC 12288, is in the early stages of a rebuild to fly at Skywords Aviation. There are currently no airworthy examples of the sleek, 1927 monoplane, which was designed by Jack Northrop and Gerrard Vultee...

  • Cosford gets first Dominie

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:14 Author: Jane Hyde
    The RAF Museum Cosford, took delivery of Hawker-Siddeley Dominie T.1 XS709 on February 11, following the recent retirement of the type. The machine was the first Dominie built, being delivered to the RAF in December 1965. The Disposal Service Authority ...

  • USN celebrates aviation centenary

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:12 Author: Jane Hyde
    The centenary of US Naval Aviation was celebrated with a huge Open House event and Parade of Flight flypast at North Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, on February 12. North Island is the birthplace of American Naval Aviation. On January 26, 1911, G...

  • FHC Fw 190 painted

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:11 Author: Jane Hyde
    The flying heritage Collection Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5 WNr1501227/ N19027 was rolled out wearing its original 4./JG54 markings at Casa Grande, Arizona on January 26. The fighter made its first post-restoration flight on December 1, and has recently been u...

  • Rare Sopwith for New Zealand

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:09 Author: Jane Hyde
    The Vintage Aviator at Wellington, New Zealand, has acquired an original Sopwith 1½ Strutter from Kermit Weeks in Florida. The Clerget powered  machine is one of only four genuine  1½ Strutters surviving (see Database, December 2009 Aeroplan...

  • Prototype Mozzie moves

    Created: Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:07 Author: Jane Hyde
    At the de Havilland Heritage Centre, Salisbury Hall, Hertfordshire on January 22, the prototype de Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito was carefully relocated to the centre's main exhibition building, after spending the past 52 years on display in the adjacent Ro...

  • New complex for Yanks AM

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Construction of a new 250,000ft² building to house part of the vast collection of aircraft belonging to the Yanks Air Museum was announced on December 31. The installation of utility lines and access roads for the first 35 acre phase of the development...

  • Harrier completed

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    During December the world's only restored,  T.2 specification RAF Hawker- Siddeley Harrier was unveiled by Bradford-based Jet Art Aviation. After a year long rebuild back from T.4 configuration the machine, XW269, has emerged in the markings it wor...

  • Spitfire readied at Avspecs

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Doug Brooker's Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 MH367/ZK-WDQ was having an oil leak in the Merlin engine rectified in the Avspecs hangar at Ardmore, near Auckland on January 13, in preparation for its debut appearance at the Wings over Wairarapa show at Master...

  • Hangar Bay opens at Pensacola

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    On January 14, the National Museum of the US Navy at Pensacola, Florida began the centenary year of naval aviation with the public opening of the new $7.5m Hangar Bay One building. The extra 55,000 ft² of display space primarily accomodates aircraft fr...

  • U-Boat killer to fly at air shows in 2011

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina N9767 flew for the first time in ten years at Orly Airport, Paris on December 22. The former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) machine has been acquired from long-term owner Franklin Devaux by a consortium of French owners, wh...

  • Hunter five ship for 60th year

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Hawker Hunter T.7 WV372/G-BXFI was ferried from Kemble to Exeter on January 6, following acquisition by Team Viper (TV), the world's only Hunter formation aerobatic team. During the following week it was being prepared by Hunter Flying Ltd. for TV's fir...

  • Caproni Museum to expand

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Trento Airport in North-east Italy during early December, the management of the Gianni Caproni Aviation Museum announced long- awaited plans to acquire a second exhibition building and improve the existing displays. A temporary exhibition, named Teso...

  • Record crowd at Brooklands

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The new year got under way in fine style at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, on January 1, with a record-setting 2,700 visitors visiting for the annual New Year’s Day gathering. Although it is predominantly a vintage car event, the museumâ€...

  • Tigers almost complete

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Henstridge Airfield in Somerset, former Fleet Air Arm D.H. Sea Vixen observer Kevin Crumplin is close to completing the restoration of three ex-RAF D.H.82 Tiger Moths. Work began on R5246/G-AMIV at Kevin’s premises in Wells, Somerset, in June 2006,...