Airlines Hangar Tail 
Aerotime
JANUARY 20, 2025
These flights, which could last up to 17 hours, took off from Hamburg, where the airlines maintenance base was also located. The re-assembly process in the hangar in Hamburg was always destined to be a painstaking and lengthy process. With its four piston engines, the Super Stars began a new era of transatlantic air travel.
Aerotime
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, and still wearing its test registration of D-AZAI, the aircraft finally emerged from the hangar at Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport (XFW) to begin engine runs and ground testing before its first flight which is expected in the coming days.
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AV Web
APRIL 30, 2025
The pilot flying, who held an airline transport pilot certificate, was killed while several passengers were injured. The NTSBs final report noted that the aircraft had been removed from a heated hangar and refueled before sitting outside in freezing mist and snow for about 40 minutes without any deice or anti-ice treatment.
Aerotime
MAY 22, 2025
Over the next few years, the carrier will complete nose-to-tail refreshes on over 200 widebody aircraft, including the largest passenger jet, the Airbus A380. During its recent earnings release, the airline indicated another 99 aircraft would also be added to the program. The investment required runs to an eye-watering $5 billion.
Air Facts
JUNE 2, 2025
For perspective, imagine this happening on an airline flight: would the gate agent lend you their car for a few hours, just because you flew in on United? Some traditions have certainly faded over the yearsI see fewer hangar kegs than I once didbut many of the most important ones are surprisingly resilient.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 3, 2025
Beta Technologies Alia, tail number N916LF, taxis on the runway at Modern Aviations JFK FBO terminal. Electric batteries in the aircrafts belly feed dual redundant electric motors in the tail, powering four vertical lift propellers and one fixed-pitch propeller. It’s just another step toward certification.
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The familiar yellow Taylorcraft is parked by a galvanized corrugated steel roof shed-style hangar. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Bill was a pilot for Eastern Airlines and he wore a toupee. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail.
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