Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The newest Emirates member will be powered by a blend of jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) when the aircraft makes its ferry flight. And in March 2024, the completed plane was photographed with just its tail painted in the Emirates colors.

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Ferry Flight Airlines Airline Tail 274

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Despite the challenges, the Jayhawk Wing is determined to restore the damaged Bobcat, which sustained most of its damage to the tail section. A dedicated group of Jayhawk members made two trips to Midland to prepare N44795 for its ferry flight to Wichita. In 1994, the plane was returned to CAF Headquarters in Midland, Texas.

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Ferry Flight Tail Pilot 98

Aerotime

JUNE 21, 2024

There, it was to be repurposed as a passenger-carrying aircraft for tourist flights and air safaris in Zimbabwe in southern Africa. The tail was completely blown off, the port float was virtually shot away, and the port wing was damaged. Numerous holes had been made in the plane’s hull, so it started to take on water and sink.

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Pilot Tail Ferry Flight Stability 293

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 14, 2024

A young Art Lacey before the ferry flight. Next, the aircraft found itself at several Army Airfields across the country, from Rome, New York to Cincinnati, Ohio, to Independence, Kansas before ending up at Altus in November 1945, one of many planes to go from the factories to the scrapyards at the end of the war.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Runway 119

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

The C-47 also had an astrodome positioned in the cabin roof, strengthened floor components, a double cargo door and a shortened tail-cone for glider-towing shackles, all of which the C-49 did not have. In January 2017, it was cleared for a maintenance ferry flight from Frederick to Tulsa.

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Cargo Hangar Weather Ferry Flight 116

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

On July 25, 1944, Darbois took this Bf 109G-6 (Werknummer 160756 ‘Yellow 4’ of Jagdgeschwader 4) on a formation ferry flight over northern Italy. This version of the famed Wildcat fighter was in fact identical to the Grumman-built F4F-4 but with four.50

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Hangar Torque Ferry Flight Pilot 116