Two Helldivers take to the air

Over the space of just a fortnight, the world’s airworthy population of Curtiss SB2C Helldivers increased by two thirds with the post-restoration maiden flight of Jim Slattery’s SB2C-1A, BuNo 75552, at Colorado Springs on 8 August, the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum SB2C-5, BuNo 83393, having flown at Granite Falls, Minnesota on 22 July.BuNo 83393 was recovered from a crash site near Naval Air Station Dahlgren, Virginia during 1993, 48 years after it had crashed into trees while landing. Some parts