Two Starfighters and a Corsair II are now under cover at Greece’s Hellenic Air Force Museum to ensure their long-term preservation.

In the Flyhistorisk Museum Sola at Stavanger Airport, Norway, the restoration of two rare and significant wartime Luftwaffe aircraft, an Arado Ar 66 C and an Arado Ar 96 B-1, is progressing well.

It was announced in late August 2024 that the Duxford, Cambridge-based ‘Suffolk Spitfire’ — George Haye's LF.XVIe RW382 — has joined the Polish Heritage Flight (PHF).

The 60th anniversary of the introduction of the Westland Wasp into front-line service with the Fleet Air Arm was celebrated at RNAS Yeovilton on September 19, 2024, with a Navy Wings-organised gathering of five of the dainty, but deadly, anti-submarine helicopters.

The fuselage of a Short Stirling bomber has recently arrived in the UK.

A rare example of an early production Vought-built F4U Corsair has recently been placed on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum on NAS Pensacola, Florida.

Forty-one years after it was installed at RAF Honington as a gate guardian, the prototype Blackburn Buccaneer S2, XK526, has been acquired by the RAF Binbrook Heritage Centre

Tom Leaver’s stunning 1928-built Travel Air 4000 NC5427 was awarded The Prince Michael of Kent Trophy for the best aircraft at this year’s Light Aircraft Association (LAA) Rally.

A new static restoration project at the Hooton Park Trust hangar on the Wirral is Percival Proctor IV RM169/G-ANVY/SE-CEA.

Former US Navy TBM-3E Avenger 91188 arrived at California’s Castle Air Museum on May 30 for restoration to static display following several years of uncertainty surrounding its fate.

During early August it was confirmed that Supermarine Spitfire IXT MH367 has been acquired by Ultimate Warbird Flights at Sywell from Doug Brooker/Warbird Adventure Rides at Drury, near Auckland, New Zealand, and will join the UK’s most famous two-seat Spitfire, ML407, on the operator’s pleasure-flying fleet.

Jet Art Aviation has restored Westland Gazelle AH1 XZ343, a veteran of Operation Granby.

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.

El B-52H Stratofortress 61-0028, apodado Wolfpack, llegó a Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, a principios de 2024 para su mantenimiento programado en depósito, donde el avión es despintado, inspeccionado y reparado. En esta ocasión, el avión del 49º Escuadrón de Pruebas y Evaluación de Barksdale AFB, Luisiana, fue pintado en naranja dayglo en el fuselaje delantero, los extremos de las alas, las góndolas de los motores y el estabilizador vertical para conmemorar el NB-52A 52-0003 durante las pruebas del North American X-15 Rob Stephens / Redhome Aviation

B-52H Stratofortress 61-0028, nicknamed Wolfpack, now wears a retro look in a nod to the past