Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 7, 2024

This aircraft is currently preparing for a ferry flight from its longtime home at Fairview Airport in Rhome, Texas back to the place of its birth in Hagerstown, Maryland. It was in a hangar in Waco circa 1980 that Dom Pellegreno first saw the aircraft, while he and his wife, Ann, sheltered from a storm.

Ferry Flight 116

Ferry Flight Cockpit Pilot Hangar 116

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 10, 2024

July 11, 2024 After eight years, the Hawaii Mars finally floated again on the water, but not only this, it performed taxi tests in preparation for the ferry flight from Sproat Lake to the B.C. photo by Rob Frolic – 2015) The team at Coulson Aviation has been working on getting the airplane ready for the ferry flight.

Ferry Flight 119

Ferry Flight Primary Flight Display Cockpit Flight Plan 119

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 27, 2024

The ferry flight to the museum , tentatively scheduled for August 10th this year, will likely mark the type’s final ever journey skyward under its own power. Transport Canada will do all of the approvals… And then, there might be a practice flight. I’m still waiting to hear about that.”

Ferry Flight 131

Ferry Flight Airplanes Weather Runway 131

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

was removed from the National Mall in May 2019 and shipped for storage and refurbishment at the Udvar-Hay Center, and later refurbishment in the center’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar. Currently, the 109 is being repainted in the Engen Restoration Hangar, but will soon be made ready for shipment back to Washington D.C.,

Hangar 111

Hangar Torque Ferry Flight Pilot 111