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Aeroplane November 2024

Weather hits Goodwood’s Freddie March

25th October 2024

Top award at the 18th annual Freddie March Spirit of Aviation concours d’elegance for pre-1966 aircraft at the weather-beaten Goodwood Revival from 6-8 September went to John Romain for the Aircraft Restoration Company’s Westland Lysander IIIa V9312/G-CCOM, the only airworthy British-built Lysander in the world.

Air Museum

Arados Progressing in Norway

18th October 2024

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.

Anniversary

Navy Wings Celebrates Wasp at 60

17th October 2024

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.

Aeroplane November 2024

First Buccaneer S2 for Binbrook

10th October 2024

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

Percival

Hooton Park adds a Percival Proctor

10th October 2024

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

Aeroplane October 2024

Another two-seat Spitfire for the UK

10th October 2024

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.

Aeroplane October 2024

Two Helldivers take to the air

3rd October 2024

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.

Douglas DC-3

Final Lelystad flight for DDA DC-3

20th September 2024

The last DDA Classic Airlines passenger flights from the Aviodrome at Lelystad Airport with its Douglas DC-3 were flown on August 25, 2024.

Avro York

Key Duxford airframes heading outside?

19th September 2024

The Imperial War Museums plans to move three significant, four-engined aeroplanes out of IWM Duxford’s AirSpace building as part of a masterplan that will see it repurposed as a Cold War exhibition.

Belgian Air Force

More Mirage noses for Brustem

4th September 2024

The cockpit sections of Dassault Mirage 5BA BA-27 and Mirage 5BR BR-22 have been added to the collection assembled by the Mirage 5 BD-09 Restoration Group, also known as the Mirage Team BD-09, located in Hangar H27 at the former Belgian Air Force air base at Brustem, just east of Sint-Truiden.

Aeroplane September 2024

Caproni Ca 310 coming together in Norway

29th August 2024

The only surviving Caproni Ca 310 twin-engine reconnaissance machine is now approaching the end of a lengthy restoration in the workshops of the Flyhistorisk Museum at Sola, south-western Norway.

United States (US)

Vought Corsair biplane completed

23rd August 2024

Fifteen years after construction began, the Grand Prairie, Texas-based Vought Heritage Foundation recently completed a reproduction Vought O3U‑3 Corsair floatplane, a type that originally went into US Navy service in the patrol and observation role during 1932.

Aeroplane September 2024

Yak-3 flies to new home

22nd August 2024

Yakovlev Yak-3UA G-OLEG arrived at Wellesbourne Mountford near Stratford-upon-Avon on 19 July, following its acquisition from Leicestershire-based Cirrus Aircraft UK by Andrew Holman West’s Russian Radials.

Aeroplane August 2024

Messerschmitt Bf 110 restoration progressing in Norway

15th August 2024

Forty years after it was salvaged from a crash site near Båtsfjord in Finnmark county, northern Norway, the long-term restoration of Messerschmitt Bf 110 F-2 Werknummer 5096 is progressing at the Flyhistorisk Museum at Stavanger-Sola.

Areroplane September 2024

Debut for privately owned Turbo Firecat

9th August 2024

Conair Turbo Firecat F-AYFT, owned by the Amicale Alençonnaise des Avions Anciens and based at Alençon in northern France, made its first public appearance in the association’s hands in the static park at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on 19-21 July.

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