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[ April 26, 2024 ] The Last Blackburn Beverley is Saved Aviation Museum News
[ April 26, 2024 ] D-Day Squadron Returns to Germany to Celebrate the Berlin Airlift 75th Anniversary Warbirds News
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[ April 25, 2024 ] Pima Air and Space Museum Acquires Iconic Philippine Mars Warbirds News

Preserving Jaguar XX764

April 24, 2024 Stephen Chapis 0

By Stephen Chapis The SEPECAT (Société Européenne de Production de l’avion Ecole de Combat et d’Appui Tactique) Jaguar was a collaboration between the British Aircraft Corporation and Breguet born in 1965 out of a British […]

Newark Air Museum Chinook Restoration Update

April 3, 2024 Zac Yates 0

PRESS RELEASE Following the arrival of Boeing Chinook HC.1 ZA717 from RAF Cranwell back in February 2018 Newark Air Museum (NAM) became the first Accredited Independent museum in the UK to acquire and display a […]

The Vision: The Return of the Dornier Do X

January 22, 2024 Vintage Aviation News 2

By Anthony Liberatore In Hildesheim, Germany, a replica of the Dornier Do X flying boat is taking shape and I had the privilege of interviewing the person who is spearheading this effort, Peter Kielhorn. The […]

Fokker F VIIb ‘Southern Cross’ Replica Flies in Australia

December 7, 2023 Vintage Aviation News 5

After over 20 years on the ground, the Fokker F.VIIb Replica VH-USU ‘Southern Cross’, operated by the HARS Aviation Museum, of New South Wales, flew again in Australia on Tuesday 5 December 2023, departing off […]

Historic Feature: Col Borman’s Kingcobra

November 16, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

We present this feature article from the July 1998 archives of Warbirds Worldwide Journal No.45 as a tribute to the late Colonel Frank Borman, USAF and astronaut who passed away in November 2023. [EAA Statement. […]

Belfast Transport Set to Return

October 7, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 1

By Dave Söderström, Historic Australian Aircraft. In what seems almost unheard of in today’s world, an aircraft built in the 1960s is set to return to work doing what it was built for; hauling oversized […]

Vickers Viking on the Move…

April 28, 2023 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 8

by Richard Mallory Allnutt The Blackbushe Heritage Trust (BHT) is in the process of saving a very rare Vickers Viking airliner. Stored outdoors for decades in Austria, most recently in Bad Vöslau, the now-disassembled Viking […]

Cierva C.4 Autogiro Replica Flies in Spain

March 31, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 1

Translated report – Many thanks to José Manuel Gil, ‘Sandglass Patrol’ Just two months past the centenary marking the first successful autogyro flight, a modern replica of that same aircraft, a Cierva C.4 Autogiro*, flew […]

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Fundraising Appeal

March 13, 2023 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As many readers will know, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWH) in Mount Hope, Ontario received a marvelous gift from the Canada Aviation & Space Museum last October, in the donation of Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVIe TE214. With […]

NMUSAF Curtiss Jenny Restoration Update

March 9, 2023 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

A few weeks ago, we published a story by Adam Estes describing the history of the original Curtiss JN-4D Jenny presently undergoing restoration at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. […]