Vintage Aviation News

MAY 15, 2025

Inside the hangars of the Commemorative Air Force Southern California Wing (CAF SoCal) in Camarillo, California, a rare and legendary warbird is undergoing a complete transformation. We had aileron linkage problems, wing fold lockdown problemsthe list is massive, McMahon said. The aircraft, a Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat (BuNo.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2025

The plane was equipped with a new interior, allowing company executives to travel in comfort while conducting business on the company’s airplane. Meanwhile, volunteers at the Flight Path Museum and Learning Center are eager to find a new airplane to take the DC-3’s place.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

So, my mom would take me out there, and I’d just watch the airplanes….My He said, ‘If you come wash my airplane, I’ll give you a ride, but I got to meet with your parents first.'” The next weekend I went out to the airport, washed his airplane and he gave me a ride. was invited into the hangar.

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Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. As I went through the preflight inspection, my wife strapped my daughter into the car seat and climbed into the airplane herself. At that point, I decided to go around.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Some pilots come to Galesburg, park their airplane and just enjoy the fellowship for the week. Vendors set up to sell souvenirs and parts, and the new International Stearman Community Hangar hosts its own gift shop, historical library, and museum inside. What can you possibly do for a whole week in Galesburg, you might ask.

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Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

While I have done flight reviews in my airplane and demonstrated stalls, steep turns, and other basic maneuvers for various flight instructors over the years, my preference is to seek out new experiences, gain skills, learn from different instructors, and fly other aircraft types instead. "I Just Flew a Super Decathlon!" "I Photo by Don.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

Liberty Belle’s surviving rear fuselage, however, was sent off for rebuild with Hangar 13 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hangar 13’s owner, Ray Moore, is rebuilding his own B-17 (B-17F 42-3455 Lucky Thirteen ) and has collaborated with a number of other B-17 owners in the rebuilds of their aircraft.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When I had the endurance to drive 20 miles to an appointment, had good situational awareness of all the cars around me on the freeway, and when driving didn’t take 100 percent concentration, I had passed the first challenge before getting in the airplane. Then the CFI gave me a few unusual attitudes, and all was well. So what did I observe?

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

It had been over 15 years since I was last in a small airplane, and to say I was excited is quite the understatement. Postflight, youll learn how to properly shut down the airplane safely. In-Flight Experience Takeoff and climb Taking off in a small airplane for the first time is a feeling youll never forget.

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Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. 164 airplanes.)

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

These flying law enforcement officers pilot helicopters and airplanes in support of troopers on the ground. READ MORE: NYPD Taps Drones for Airborne Police Work WSP headquarters is a boxy 1930s-era hangar located on the east side of the airport. Flying for state patrol is one of these flying jobs. Statema allowed me to try it.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4, also known as a Cub Coupe, had been dropped off in Kennett for annual in 2008 by its then-owner and ended up becoming a permanent resident when Hurricane Ike stretched inland all the way to the Missouri Bootheel, lifting it from the ground and depositing it on top of the FBO’s maintenance hangar.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

A few years ago, I got the bug to fly small airplanes again. We fly our new-to-us Piper to Florida often (the airplane could probably find Orlando on its own), and we agreed it was time for something more adventurous. Our Aircraft Our family’s airplane is a 1976 Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Even during his student days, however, Albree was fascinated with airplanes, often to the detriment of his academic studies, and he began to build his own designs. Born in Boston on February 3, 1888, Albree would graduate from Dartmouth College in 1912 after attending courses at Union College and Amherst College.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

I want it because I want to travel through time and I want to fly a difficult airplane and I want to feel the wind when I fly and I want people to look, to see, to know that glory still exists. Interestingly, that F-24R – formerly NC77647 and later G-FANC – was exported to the UK but was destroyed in a hangar fire in 2003.”

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Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

I had never heard of a Pierre Robin R2160 before, and why should I have known about an obscure GA airplane that only has eight (10, actually, but more on that later) examples in the U.S.? Its owned by Lee Smith, 69, who keeps it hangared at Long Island Airpark (NC26), in North Carolina. and has, in fact, owned Six Zero Zulu twice.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. Frustrated at work, in 1909 he received a gift of 1,000 pounds from his grandfather to build his first airplane, just a few years after the Wright brothers had made their first flight.

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Plane and Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

Although Im new to the area, if Ive learned anything about hanging around at a decently popular and unique airport like the one here in Fredericksburg, you never know what kind of airplane you might see, or who you might meet. These airplanes were here to do a job. Were flying airplanes, so slow is fast. Its not very stable.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplanes success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Plus, you know, the airplanes were pretty OK. Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. We had eight airplanes partially built so they had to be taken out too.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Since then, the team has advanced the airplane into a kit, one made out of carbon fiber and incorporating more than 1400 hours of the prototype’s operation. But now they are, and as no other Experimental—or certified airplane for that matter—can do what the Gweduck can, it’s time to take a good look at the program.

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With a collection seeded by purchase of six WWI era aircraft from the former Roosevelt Field where Charles Lindbergh launched on his historic flight to Paris, ORA is a tribute to founder Cole Palen's (1925-1993) fervent belief that an airplane is only an airplane if it still flies. Over time, he built an extensive flying menagerie.

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