Historic

Aeroplane May 2024

New Helicopter Museum hangar nearing completion

25th April 2024

At Weston-super-Mare, phase two of construction of The Helicopter Museum’s new exhibition hangar is now approaching completion, with the walls and doors installed.

Bristol Aeroplane Company

Bolingbroke discovered in Canada

25th April 2024

In early March, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) announced that the remains of a Bristol Bolingbroke had been discovered in the province of Manitoba and donated to the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum (CATPM), which is aiming to put an example of the type in the air.

Australia

New home planned for Aussie B-24 Liberator

19th April 2024

In the Melbourne suburb of Werribee, Victoria, the state-owned Melbourne Water Corporation will soon begin a project to dismantle the larger of two Second World War hangars at the far end of the old training base – hangar 1 – and relocate it to a site adjacent to the B-24 Liberator Memorial Australia restoration hangar.

McDonnell Douglas

US Air Force museum receives KC-10 Extender

18th April 2024

The National Museum of the US Air Force has added a McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender to its collection.

de Havilland

La Ferté Dragon Rapide takes shape

18th April 2024

At La Ferté-Alais, restoration of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis’ de Havilland DH89A Dragon Rapide F-AZCA has seen application of more of its post-war Fleet Air Arm colour scheme.

Percival

Proctor I makes debut public appearance

17th April 2024

Whitby, Yorkshire-based Paul Gliddon’s Percival Proctor I VH-UXS made its public debut at the Tyabb Air Show in Gliddon’s hands on 10 February, nearly five years after its first post-restoration flight at Latrobe Valley Regional Airport, 90-odd miles west of Melbourne.

Douglas

Save the Skymaster closes

16th April 2024

North Weald-based Save the Skymaster has announced that it is to close its charity and halt restoration work on Douglas C-54, N44914 (c/n 10630) ‘56498’.

Air Leasing

El Thomas Castle Aviation Heritage Scholarship trust ha anunciado sus becas para 2024

15th April 2024

Las solicitudes para una de las cinco becas disponibles se abrirán el 1 de mayo

Air Leasing

The Thomas Castle Aviation Heritage Scholarship trust has announced its 2024 scholarships

15th April 2024

Applications for one of five available scholarships will open on May 1

9/11 Terror Attacks

Historic ‘9/11’ Cessna for USAF museum

12th April 2024

The National Museum of the US Air Force has received Cessna 172P N9344L, newly retired by the Civil Air Patrol.

de Havilland Mosquito

Mosquito T43 flies at Ardmore

12th April 2024

On 18 March, former Royal New Zealand Air Force de Havilland Mosquito T43 NZ2308 — the fourth Mosquito to emerge from the Avspecs workshops at Ardmore, Auckland — took to the air with leading American warbird pilot Steve Hinton at the controls.