Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 3, 2025
3/4 view of the Planes of Fame’s Curtiss P-47G Thunderbolt, 42-25254, with its newly overhauled R-2800 engine, standing in the museum’s Bob Pond Hangar. Now, the museum has made a major milestone in this project by reinstalling the Thunderbolt’s freshly overhauled Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine.
Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 21, 2025
03531 by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Airbase Georgia continues to progress steadily at its hangar in Peachtree City, Georgia. Additional components, including the seats, control linkages, various connections, and the firewall, have also been installed. The restoration of Boeing N2S-2 Stearman Bu.No
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Vintage Aviation News
MAY 3, 2024
We just have the brakes to set up and then the fuel tank firewall will be fitted, and in turn the tank. Photo by Martin Overall] “The remaining systems will be tested in the hangar before we wheel MJ outside to the tie-down for the first engine runs. “The front canopy has been trial assembled and all trimmed in.
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 17, 2025
“There was no firewall forward, there were no motor mounts or oil tank, no fuel tanks,” Devries said. I had a hangar in San Luis Obispo, and Id moved the airplane down here. Hed show up at the hangar with his coveralls on, and hed have his union badge and everything, just like hed been at Douglas! .
Gary's Flight Journal
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Something about the best laid plans… I didn’t go back to the hangar last night to plug in, I should have. I did give the firewall and gear a once over after taking a peek at the runway for miscellaneous parts that may have been left behind. This morning was to be an early start to catch the sunrise over Ocean City.
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.
Vintage Aviation News
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
This was the same aircraft where the Bellanca Aircraft Company set up its factory and where Air Service had built a new hangar in 1935 on the site of one that had burned in 1934 (Today, Air Service’s 1935 hangar now serves as the home of the Bellanca Airfield Museum). I went by Tom’s hangar to get his opinion.
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