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

Firewall 111

Firewall Hangar 111

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.

Aileron 131

Aileron Firewall Cockpit Hangar 131

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.

Density Altitude 52

Density Altitude Firewall Runway Approach 52

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.

Tail 126

Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

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.

Firewall 98

Firewall Airplanes Hangar Tail 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Pretty much the only metal parts are the landing gear legs, stainless firewalls, engine mounts, engines and hardware. At that point the project is trucked 5 miles to the Prineville Airport where final assembly takes place in a hangar. Everything that can be composite is, all the way down to the engine baffling.

Airplanes 80

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Airtime inhabits a large hangar at the Tulsa Riverside Airport (KRVS) where newly imported CTs are prepped, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades are carried out for aircraft in the U.S. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. distributor for Flight Design aircraft.

Airplanes 98

Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98