Timmermans Legends of Flight announced the acquisition of Goodyear FG-1D Corsair BuNo 92050/N194G on 24 January, and the 1945-built fighter is scheduled to arrive at the organisation’s Chatham-Kent Municipal Airport base in Ontario soon.
Under cover after many years on external display at the Midland Air Museum at Baginton, Coventry, the restoration of 66-year-old Westland Whirlwind Series 3 G-APWN has begun.
The Hucknall Flight Test Museum, located at the former Rolls-Royce aero engine site in Nottinghamshire, will be officially opening to the public on 5 April.
More than 22 years after its September 2002 arrival at North Weald from the USA for a proposed Steven Spielberg-directed HBO film about the Berlin Airlift, Douglas C-54D Skymaster 42-72525/N44914 was scrapped at the Essex airfield during January.