On 22 May, the Avro Heritage Museum at Woodford, Stockport received Anson C19 TX214 from the RAF Museum Midlands at Cosford, a significant addition to the museum’s collection.
Fire bomber Martin JRM-1 Mars BuNo 76820/ C-FLYK Philippine Mars arrived at the Pima Air and Space Museum during the early hours of Saturday 17 May at the end of a 150-mile, week-long road trip from Lake Pleasant, 43 miles north of Phoenix.
A Flug Werk FW 190 A-8/N arrived at the MSÖ Air & Space Museum facility at the Sivrihisar Aviation Center in Eskisehir, north-western Turkey on 8 May following its acquisition by Ali İsmet Öztürk from Dan Kirkland in California.
On 11 April, 100-year-old, Minneapolis-Saint Paul-born US Army Air Forces P-51D Mustang pilot Col Joe Peterburs visited Duxford to fly with Isabel Rutland in the back of P-51D 44-13521/G-MRLL Marinell.
Salmson D7 Cri-Cri Major F-AZAB of the Salis family’s Casques de Cuir collection made its maiden flight at La Ferté-Alais with Edmond Salis at the controls on 11 April, following a seven-year restoration. It is the only example flying.
Grand Champion award at the Antique Aeroplane Association of Australia National Fly-in at Corowa, New South Wales from 10-13 April went to Robert Fox’s recently restored, Gipsy III-powered Comper Swift