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  • POF holds Fw 190 event

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    On January 8 at Chino, California, the first of the Planes of Fame Museum’s monthly living history events for 2011 took on the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 as its subject. Unfortunately, the planned debut Chino flying display from Rudy Frasca’s new-build Flug ...

  • Miss Demeanour repainted

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Jonathan Whaley’s Hawker Hunter Mk.58 G-PSST Miss Demeanour was repainted at Bournemouth Airport during December by Aviation Paint Ltd. The popular display act retains the  spectacular ‘space re-entry’  colour scheme, but the nose is now...

  • Spitfire Tr.9 arrives at Duxford for work

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    On January 2, the Maurice Bayliss-owned Supermarine Spitfire Tr.9 MJ627 flew from its Lincolnshire base to Duxford. Over the following days engineers from The Old Flying Machine Company completed the Vickers two-seat Spitfire modifications to the ammuni...

  • Archæology event for Chino

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Following the arrival of the nose of Boeing B-17E Swamp Ghost at the Planes of Fame Museum at Chino, California, in December, the museum will stage a special event, Recovering Lost Aircraft, on April 2. Several aviation historians and archæologists wil...

  • Toronto Lanc progressing

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At the Canadian Air & Space Museum in Downsview, Toronto, the restoration of Avro Lancaster X FM104 to 1945 configuration is proceeding apace. A team of 17 volunteers has been working primarily on the centre section, which was heavily damaged when F...

  • B.E.2 rigged and film storyboards found

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    During December, Matthew Boddington and Steve Slater completed initial rigging of their Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 replica, G-AWYI, at Sywell aerodrome. The machine was imported in 2006 from New York State, where it had been stored since an accident i...

  • Dewoitine revival in Switzerland

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Lausanne, work to convert a former Swiss Air Force Dewoitine D.26 fighter-trainer into D.27 fighter configuration is now under way with the Association Pour Le Maintien Du Patrimoine Aéronautique (APMA). The 1931-built D.26, HB-RAI, has not flown si...

  • Super Corsair to fly soon

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Vought F2G Super Corsair NX5577N, in which Cook Cleland won the 1947 Thompson Trophy race at Cleveland, is approaching the end of restoration to fly at Odegaard Aviation in Kindred, North Dakota. It is hoped that it will be airborne for the first time i...

  • Hawker Fury for Belgium

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Former Iraqi Air Force Hawker Fury FB.10 VH-ISS was due to arrive at Flying Aces Services and Training in Belgium during January, following a sea crossing from Perth, Western Australia. It has been restored at Rob Poynton’s Panama Jacks Restoration Co...

  • Canuck at Coventry

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Europe’s only Fleet Model 80 Canuck arrived at Coventry Airport by road from Turweston just before Christmas, and was due to be assembled by late January. The 1946-built machine is owned by Air Atlantique volunteer Ewan Taylor, who has been restoring ...

  • Canberra to Belfast

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Fifty-one years after it made its maiden flight at Sydenham airfield, Belfast-built English Electric Canberra PR.9 XH131 arrived at the Ulster Aviation Society’s (UAS)hangar at Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on December 14. The machine was the third of 23...

  • C-46s rot away in Haiti

    Created: Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti, two former Air Haiti Curtiss C-46 Commandoes, HH-AHA and HH-AHD, are still rotting away in the weeds, nearly 30 years after they were withdrawn from service. C-46 HH-AHA (seen on the left, above), was first operated b...

  • Fw 190 flies in Arizona

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The Flying heritage Collection's (FHC) Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-5 made a 20min test flight from Casa Grande, Arizona, on December 1, with Steve Hinton at the controls. It was the first time that a genuine BMW 801-powered example of the type has flown since th...

  • DC-6 flies again in SA

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Following a two-year restoration led by South African Airways engineer Mike Mayers, Douglas DC-6B ZS-MUL flew from Swartkop airfield, Pretoria, to a specially prepared strip north of the city on December 4. The machine is owned by businessmen Withold Wa...

  • Harrier Force retired

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    More than 40 years after the first Hawker Harrier GR.1s entered service with the RAF with 1 Sqn at Wildenrath, West Germany, the last RAF Harrier GR.9s were retired at RAF Cottesmore on December 15. A low cloudbase meant the planned 16 aircraft formatio...

  • Spitfire flies again with original Merlin

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    At North Weald on November 26, the Hangar 11 Collection Supermarine Spitfire XI, PL965, flew under the power of its original Rolls-Royce Merlin 70 engine for the first time in 63 years. During the second week of December the machine was due to be painte...

  • Macchi on show in Milan

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Two of Italy's most historic aircraft went on display inside a pavilion at Milan's Cathredal Square for the opening of the city's new art gallery. The Museo del Novecento, on December 6. The temporary exhibition is sponsored by Finmeccanica, the Italian...

  • DDA Douglas DC-3 gets KLM colours

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    In early December at the KLM paintshop at Schiphol Airport, Holland, DDA Classic Airlines Douglas DC-3 PH-PBA was repainted in a 1960s KLM livery. The former personal Dakota of Prince Bernhard had previously been flying in a half-KLM, half-Air France li...

  • Curtiss commemorations

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    The centenary of the first aeroplane flight from a ship was celebrated in fine style by retired US Navy officer Bob Coolbaugh at NAS Norfolk, Virginia, on November 12, as he made two passes over Willoughby Bay in his replica Curtiss-Ely Pusher. Coolbaug...

  • Green Giant at Dayton

    Created: Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    Sikorsky HH-3E Jolly Green Giant 67-14709 was unveiled at the National Museum of the USAF at Dayton, Ohio, on December 14. The helicopter served in combat for 32 months with the 37th Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Squadron at DaNang Air Base, South Vie...