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Full cycle: how TARMAC Aerosave stores, maintains and recycles airliners 

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The locations of those sites were chosen in great part because they offered a combination of plentiful space together with suitable climatic conditions, with dry weather, low air salinity and low temperature variation. In October 2024, TARMAC Aerosave inaugurated a large hangar at Teruel airport in Spain, capable of hosting A380 aircraft.

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See The ‘Intrepid’ Museum’s New FG-1D Corsair Ahead of Its Public Unveiling

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92013) that arrived at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in October 2024 is currently under restoration but will be available to be viewed in the restoration hangar at two public events in February 2025 before its official public unveiling planned for March. The new Corsair in the restoration hangar on the deck of the ‘Intrepid.’

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‘Hollywood Bomber’ Conducts Engine Test; To Premier at AirVenture 2025

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After a quick debrief, the 70-year-old Beech was pushed back into the hangar. Photo by Gary Daniels The Saturday of week 106, December 7 th , was cold with deteriorating weather as the aircraft was tugged to the tarmac for another attempt to start the right engine. Number two was shut down and they called it a day.

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Analog, For the Right Reason

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Cold winds, low clouds, and scurfy ice accumulations on the few hangars there indicated that not only would the groundhog see his shadow on his official day, but he would probably find himself frozen with a coating of light rime ice on his fur. Tom is one of the lucky few around here who has an insulated and heated hangar.

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B-17 Alliance Foundation Hosts Fundraiser To Support B-17 Lacey Lady Restoration

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However, years of exposure to weather and souvenir hunters caused significant damage to the airframe, prompting the Lacey family to remove it from display and initiate restoration efforts. By 2014, the organization had raised sufficient funds to dismantle the aircraft and move it off the pylons into a hangar. Art Lacey and his wife.

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Elvis Presley’s airplanes: The Lisa Marie, the Hound Dog II and the ‘lost jet’

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He is said to have been very hands-on with the refurbishment of the Lisa Marie, picking fabrics, finishes, and colors, and regularly visiting the hangar at Meacham Field in Fort Worth to check on progress. He demanded a conference room, private bedroom, top-of-range audio-visual systems, and the highest-end finishes on everything.

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The last of 70 Cathay Pacific aircraft stored in Australia returns to Hong Kong  

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With the area enjoying relatively consistent dry weather conditions and low humidity, the climate is almost ideal to preserve expensive aircraft in the open air, rather than storing them in expensive hangars. The location of Alice Springs lends itself to long-term aircraft storage.