Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2025

Many of these legendary aircraft owe their continued existence to a string of fortunate circumstancesrepurposed for aerial survey work, stored away in forgotten hangars, or turned into static displays in unexpected places. One pressing concern is the future of the restoration hangar.

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Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

Airplanes like the Piper Cherokee probably dont get their due. Ask a stranger to think of a small GA airplane, and theyll probably conjure something like a Cub. Fearsome metal airplanes helped win a global conflict, yet pilots came home to variations on prewar designs of tube-and-fabric construction and modest performance.

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Approach Airplanes Stability Weight-Shift-Control 73

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 17, 2025

Theyre built stronger than you would see today in most airplanes. “There was no firewall forward, there were no motor mounts or oil tank, no fuel tanks,” Devries said. He packed up his family and put the airplane in the garage. I had a hangar in San Luis Obispo, and Id moved the airplane down here.

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Cockpit Airplanes Firewall Tail 115

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.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Under its wings, stood Garry and Janne Ackerman of Plano, Texas, the owners of this magnificent machine, who told attendees all about the story of this airplane and the effort they helped start to return a basket case of an airplane back to its former glory. One month later, on February 1, it was sold to Air Service Inc.,

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Firewall Airplanes Hangar Annual Inspection 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Since then, the team has advanced the airplane into a kit, one made out of carbon fiber and incorporating more than 1400 hours of the prototype’s operation. But now they are, and as no other Experimental—or certified airplane for that matter—can do what the Gweduck can, it’s time to take a good look at the program.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A strong or soft market overall can dramatically influence any given airplanes success, quite apart from how it looks or performs. Plus, you know, the airplanes were pretty OK. Literally overnight we got eight semitruck loads of equipment outtooling, molds, and even airplanes. General aviation is driven by myriad forces.

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