Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In August 1943, it was assigned to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as Kittyhawk A29-448though also marked with serial number A29-1050 on the opposite tail. USAAF Photo) Recreating the Nose Art When the aircraft was recovered, all the cowlings from the firewall forward were missing, leaving no trace of its original nose art.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 29, 2025
For over ten years, the project has been underway, with museum volunteers having built a pair of wings to the same dimensions as the first set of wings on the original, and have built the fuselage, cockpit, and tail surfaces, along with the retractable skid rather than a wheel that Hughes had installed on the original H-1.
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Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 2, 2025
Similar work lies ahead for the right wing and the tail section. The engine firewall will be installed at the bottom of the nacelle as shown, with the top section eventually reattached to the front wing spar. The left inner wing panel, once a disassembled pile of spars and ribs, has begun to resemble a functioning structure once more.
Plane and Pilot
MAY 3, 2025
Piper put bigger engines in the basic PA-28, gave it retractable gear, stretched the fuselage, changed the wing to a semitapered design, gave it a T-tail (then took the T-tail away), made the cabin wider and fitted six seats, and refined it year over year to the airplane it is today. The student then closed the throttle.
Flying Magazine
JULY 17, 2025
READ MORE: New Organization Aims to Expand Backcountry Aviation Access Among the modifications and improvements to the straight-tail Cessna: Leading edge STOL kit: For improved lift and short takeoff/landing capability Wing extensions: To increase gross weight and useful load Reinforced firewall and composite cowling Heavy-duty nosewheel fork: Built (..)
AV Web
JULY 22, 2025
The timeline for follow-on kits includes the tail kit ($9,000)—due to go on sale in December with deliveries in March next year. Orders for firewall-forward kits ($13,000) will also commence in August 2026, with deliveries by year-end. Introductory pricing is $19,650.
AV Web
JULY 1, 2025
Busted landing gear, shattered props, bent firewalls—and many more that probably didn’t make the reports because owners quickly stuck them back in the hangar and turned off the lights. With an aircraft with a 1320-pound gross weight there really isn’t much inertia. Then there’s the overall appeal of flying a modern, sporty airplane.
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