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  • KiwiFW-190 ready to resume test flying

    Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 11:32 Author: Mark
    ATOMAKA AIRFIELD, New Zealand, Flug Werk FW-190 A8/N ZK-RFR received a fresh Certificate of Airworthiness on December 13, 2011, and was expected to resume test flying before the year’s end. Now owned by the Chariots of Fire Collection, the machine was t...

  • German Spitfire first flight imminent

    Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 11:29 Author: Mark
    SPITFIRE Tr.9 MJ772/ D-FMKN was due to make its first flight in more than 25 years before the end of 2011 at Bremgarten, south-west Germany, following an intensive year-long rebuild by Meier Motors (MM). Once test-flying is completed the combat veteran wi...

  • Planes of Fame gives Judy wings; changes 2012 show date

    Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 11:24 Author: Mark
    IN THE PLANES of Fame Museum (POF) restoration hangar at Chino, California, USA, Yokosuka D4Y1 Suisei (Judy) s/n 7483 had its newly completed wings mated with the fuselage in late November 2011. The Suisei, one of only two surviving examples of this lat...

  • Kent Invader goes to France

    Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    IN LATE NOVEMBER 2011, Korean War veteran Douglas A-26B Invader 44-34172/ N4806E was moved from long-term storage on a farm in Kent to a new home at Avignon in southern France, where it will be restored to flying condition. For the past quarter of a cen...

  • Aviodrome hits trouble

    Created: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00 Author: Jane Hyde
    THE NATIONAAL LUCHTVAARTTHEMAPARK Aviodrome aviation theme park at Lelystad Airport, Holland, filed for bankruptcy at a court in Haarlem on November 24, 2011. The park, home to one of Europe’s most diverse collections of historic aircraft, has suffere...

  • 'Bestmann' arrives in Sussex

    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 11:33 Author: David Siddall
    A Heliopolis Gomhouria 181, the Egyptian version of the Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann, arrived at its new home on a farm strip near Lewes, Sussex, in the UK, on November 10, 2011, following its recent importation from Germany. Owned by Tiger Club (TC) pilot Wi...

  • Snipe and DVIII fly in NZ

    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 11:32 Author: David Siddall
    The latest masterpiece to emerge from the workshops of The Vintage Aviator Ltd (TVAL), a reproduction Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe, made its maiden flight at Masterton, in New Zealand’s North Island, on October 18, 2011. Gene DeMarco, TVAL’s general manager, w...

  • Horsa restoration forges ahead

    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 11:30 Author: David Siddall
    At RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, the Assault Glider Trust (AGT) Airspeed Horsa project is progressing well, work currently being concentrated on the huge 88ft-span wing. Brian Howlett, who has been with the trust since it was set up in 2001 to reconstruct an ...

  • Canberra to fly at Kemble

    Created: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 11:29 Author: David Siddall
    More than five years after it was retired from RAF service and flown to Kemble Airfield in Gloucestershire, English Electric Canberra PR.9 XH134 is being restored to flying condition by a team from Vintage Flyers Ltd, in association with aircraft engineer...

  • Focke-Wulf flies

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 10:30 Author: David Siddall
    Following an 11-year rebuild by Don Hansen and his team at PAI Aero in Baton Rouge, Louisina, USA, Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 Werknr 173056/N4190 made its first post-restoration flight at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on October 9, with Messerschmitt Foundat...

  • Fury wins at Goodwood

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 10:12 Author: David Siddall
    The fifth annual Freddie March Spirit of Aviation concours, held at the Goodwood Revival historic motor-race meeting in Sussex on September 18, was won by the Historic Aircraft Collection’s Hawker Fury I, K5674/G-CBZP. The world’s only surviving e...

  • Gloster F.9/40 goes to Hendon

    Created: Thursday, 27 October 2011 10:10 Author: David Siddall
    Gloster F.9/40 (Meteor) prototype DG202 was fully assembled in RAF Museum Hendon’s Milestones of Flight Hall by October 10, following the move down from the RAF Museum’s Cosford, Wolverhampton, site at the end of September. Going in the other direct...

  • Spitfire Mk I airborne

    Created: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:34 Author: David Siddall
    Supermarine Spitfire Mk I P9374/G-MKIA took off on its much-anticipated first post-rebuild flight at 1910hr on September 1 at Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire. After the problem-free 15-min test flight, pilot John Romain’s first comment was: “The cont...

  • Calshot exhibition marks Schneider 80th

    Created: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:33 Author: David Siddall
    The 80th anniversary of the RAF High Speed Flight’s triumph in the 1931 Schneider Trophy Contest will be celebrated in an exhibition entitled “Air, Sea and Speed” at Calshot, Southampton, the site of the historic victory, from October 25 until the e...

  • B.E.2 wins at LAA Rally

    Created: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:32 Author: David Siddall
    Stephen Slater and Matthew Boddington’s newly restored Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c reproduction, G-AWYI, won the Roy Mills Trophy for Best Classic Aircraft, and the Pooley Sword for the Best Replica Aircraft, at the Light Aircraft Association (LAA) Ra...

  • Ace back in a P-40

    Created: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:31 Author: David Siddall
    Second World War fighter ace Col James B. Morehead celebrated his 95th birthday with a flight in the back of Chris Prevost’s Curtiss P-40N-5, 42-105306, at Schellville Airport in California’s Sonoma Valley in the USA on August 16. During the 20min fli...

  • VWC Swordfish airborne for EAA’s naval extravaganza

    Created: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:46 Author: David Siddall
    Naval Aviation was the dominant theme at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture 2011 at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, from July 25 to 31, with the 100th anniversary of US naval aviation and the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Bismarc...

  • MAM Me 262 flies

    Created: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:46 Author: David Siddall
    The Military Air Museum’s (MAM) reproduction Messerschmitt Me 262A-1c, “White 3”, made its maiden flight on July 22 at Paine Field, Seattle, USA, with test pilot Wolfgang Maia at the controls. By the middle of August it was halfway through its 25h...

  • Combat-veteran A-4 flies

    Created: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:44 Author: David Siddall
    Vietnam veteran Douglas A-4C Skyhawk BuNo 149606 flew at Sanford International Airport, Florida, USA, on August 5, following an eight-year rebuild with Skyhawk Ventures LLC (SVLLC). Former US Navy A-4 pilot Larry Elmore was at the helm of the 1962-built...

  • Meteor painted

    Created: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 12:43 Author: David Siddall
    The Meteor Flight Gloster Meteor T.7, WA591/G-BWMF, made its debut appearance in its freshly-applied 203 Advanced Flying School (AFS) markings at the RAF Odiham families’ day on August 10. The former RAF trainer, which flew following a 15-year restora...