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. A closer look at the cockpit work currently underway reveals that the basic understructure is complete.

Cockpit 124

Cockpit Firewall Hangar Tail 124

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 3, 2024

MJ444’s front cockpit showing the Spitfire’s distinctive control column. We just have the brakes to set up and then the fuel tank firewall will be fitted, and in turn the tank. The rear face of MJ444’s front cockpit instrument panel. “The front canopy has been trial assembled and all trimmed in.

Aileron 131

Aileron Firewall Cockpit Hangar 131

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 17, 2025

That gave him the pleasure of flying the Ryan to air shows and fly-ins and the joy of flying an open-cockpit monoplane over the beautiful landscapes surrounding its San Luis Obispo base. One major difference from enclosed-cockpit planes: “You can smell things!” ” The engine and cockpit interior had been picked over.

Cockpit 115

Cockpit Airplanes Firewall Tail 115

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. Liberty Belle’s surviving rear fuselage, however, was sent off for rebuild with Hangar 13 in Asheville, North Carolina. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

Tail 126

Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

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.

Rudder 98

Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 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. So what would I fix?

Airplanes 79

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79