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Aeroplane June 2025

Bottisham Airfield Museum bags a Tiger Moth

28th May 2025

The Imperial War Museum has donated long-term Duxford AirSpace resident de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth ‘N6635’ to the Bottisham Airfield Museum.

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Tribute to rocket-assisted take-off Ercoupe!

23rd May 2025

California’s March Field Air Museum has unveiled Ercoupe 415C N2640H.

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War veteran Harrier retired to US museum

23rd May 2025

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, currently preparing to reopen in Irvine, California, in the autumn of 2026, has secured a former USMC AV-8B Harrier II

Aeroplane June 2025

Combat veteran P-40 Kittyhawk unveiled

9th May 2025

Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk A29-90 Ming the Merciless was unveiled at the Royal Australian Air Force Museum at RAAF Point Cook by Air Marshal Stephen Chappell, Chief of Air Force.

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Cornish museum artefacts go under the hammer

9th May 2025

The contents of the now defunct Flambards Museum in Helston, Cornwall, were auctioned on March 26 and 27.

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Philippine Mars heads to Pima Air & Space Museum

6th March 2025

Work is taking place on the last airworthy Martin JRM Mars flying boat for it to undertake the last part of its journey to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona.

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First RNZAF C-130H heads to museum after fleet retired

3rd March 2025

The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) 40 Squadron flew Lockheed C-130H(NZ) Hercules NZ7001 to the Air Force Museum of New Zealand in Wigram, outside Christchurch, on February 19, 2025.

Aeroplane March 2025

NASM Messerschmitt Bf 109 back in original scheme

27th February 2025

The National Air and Space Museum’s Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 Werknummer 160756 is being repainted into its original markings

Aeroplane March 2025

Coventry’s Whirlwind gets TLC

20th February 2025

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.

Aeroplane March 2025

Hucknall Flight Test Museum to reopen

19th February 2025

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.

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US Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon flies to museum home

7th February 2025

Florida’s Valiant Air Command museum has welcomed former US Navy Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon BuNo 160633 to its Titusville base.

Aeroplane February 2025

MiG-23 ‘Flogger’ repainted at Newark

7th February 2025

Better-than-anticipated weather conditions during the autumn months have enabled the volunteers at the Newark Air Museum to complete the repaint work on Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML ‘Flogger’ c/n 024003607.

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Shackleton WR963 completa su traslado al Museo del Aire de Yorkshire

14th January 2025

Todas las secciones del Avro Shackleton WR963 se encuentran ya in situ en el nuevo hogar del avión, el Museo Aéreo de Yorkshire en Elvington, a las afueras de York.

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Shackleton WR963 completes move to the Yorkshire Air Museum

14th January 2025

All sections of Avro Shackleton WR963 are now on site at the aircraft’s new home, the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, outside York.

Aeroplane December 2024

Una enorme donación asegura el futuro del Museo de Aviación Militar

19th December 2024

Durante la primera jornada del espectáculo aéreo Warbirds over the Beach, celebrado el 5 de octubre en el Museo de Aviación Militar de Virginia Beach, los fundadores del MAM, Gerald y Elaine Yagen, anunciaron una donación al museo valorada en total en más de 100 millones de dólares para garantizar el futuro de la institución que ayudaron a fundar.

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