Plane and Pilot

JULY 24, 2024

Since 1962, EAA chapter 75 from the Moline Quad-Cities area has staffed the Emergency Aircraft Repair area, helping out pilots and owners with mechanical issues that spring up at Airventure. The chapter includes airframe and powerplant mechanics, tech counselors, homebuilders, and pilots who can help out with mechanical issues.

Ferry Flight 98

Ferry Flight Airplanes Pilot Runway 98

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. Naval Test Pilot School. 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 124

Ferry Flight Cockpit Pilot Hangar 124

Plane and Pilot

JULY 24, 2024

Since 1962, EAA chapter 75 from the Moline Quad-Cities area has staffed the Emergency Aircraft Repair area, helping out pilots and owners with mechanical issues that spring up at Airventure. The chapter includes airframe and powerplant mechanics, tech counselors, homebuilders, and pilots who can help out with mechanical issues.

Ferry Flight 52

Ferry Flight Airplanes Pilot Runway 52

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. Donations can be placed HERE.

Ferry Flight 131

Ferry Flight Airplanes Weather Runway 131

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

David Legg Collection / Courtesy photo Once the decision to acquire C-FNJF was made, there followed a long period of work on the aircraft to make it ready not only for the long ferry flight to the UK but also for ongoing operations.

Tail 286

Tail Pilot Ferry Flight Stability 286

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The weekend is action-packed with daily airshows, aircraft displays, military vehicles, WWII veterans, speakers, presentations, vendors, entertainers, Homefront education, mock battles, 20-plus acres of WWII encampments, nightly big-band hangar dances, and of course, the reenactors. WildKat returned to flight in the summer of 2018.

Cargo 116

Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 116