Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 19, 2025

Sometime between 1952 and 1956, the 12/30 runway was extended to accommodate early jet aircraft such as the T-33 Shooting Star. Credit: Richard Vandervord) The facilities were sparse—just two main hangars and a cluster of general aviation buildings—but the expansive tarmac made it ideal for storing aircraft awaiting conversion or maintenance.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 12, 2025

The tail came up as it gathered speed, throwing up a cataract of red-brown mud. It was as NC965Y, which was adorned with the name Record Breaker that the aircraft was destroyed in a hangar fire in Memphis, Tennessee on August 20, 1943. The Wasp engine roared as mud sloshed under the wheels of the crimson red Vega.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 14, 2025

F-86F Sabre 52-4689/FAB 658 under restoration at the Mary Baken Engen Restoration Hangar of the Steven F. jet ace, Lebanese-American Major James Jabara). The gallery will feature Campbell’s flight gear that she wore on that mission, and a battle-scarred piece of the tail of her A-10. Udvar-Hazy Center, November 22, 2022.

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Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

The rich can dream of jets and warbirds. The owner I joined in partnership was the second owner of the Cherokee, and it was based right here, Widell says, gesturing to his spotless hangar at Twin Oaks. The rest of us fantasize about swinging a Piper Cherokee. Lets go back to that time in postwar GA when the sands shifted quickly.

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Jetwhine

JUNE 2, 2025

We hopped on a jet and flew out there and received 25 hours of training in the instructor’s Cessna 180 together. Somehow the fear is the back of the plane wanting to go first and swap ends or at least that was what Bob and I had been told about those notorious tail wheel airplanes.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

JUNE 19, 2025

In the realm of business aviation, travel options include one-off charter flights, assorted leasing options, jet card memberships, fractional ownership, and owning your own eight-figure aircraft. One of NICHOLAS AIR’s Gulstream jets sits on the tarmac. READ MORE: Private Jet Charters to the U.S. That’s what it comes down to.

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AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Lockwood Aviation’s maintenance hangar probably sees more Rotax-powered aircraft than many other shops in the country. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces. An LSA In Your Hangar With over 900 RV-12s in the field , I think the airplane has an advantage over other LSA models.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 26, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 26, 1945, the McDonnell FH Phantom, the first pure-jet aircraft developed for the United States Navy, made its first flight. The US Navy had gained its first experience in jet aviation with the Bell YF2L, two Army Air Force YP-59A Airacomets delivered for naval flight evaluation.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

In the world of aviation, Howard Hughes is known for such films as Hell’s Angels and Jet Pilot, the H-4 Hercules flying boat (better known by its derisive nickname, the “Spruce Goose”), helicopters such as the OH-6 Cayuse, and spacecraft such as the Surveyor landers and the Magellan satellite. Army Air Corps’ newest and fastest fighter.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 30, 2025

Long before the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) Hawker Siddeley Harrier , or the more recent Lockheed Martin F-35B jump jets, the concept of a fighter that could launch from a ship’s deck, fight off the enemy, and return was high on the priority list for the U.S.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

Convair designed several concepts for water-based jet aircraft, including a swept wing concept known as Projct Skate, but apart from a few scale models, these never left the drawing board.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

However, in an aviation sector still recovering from the devastation of WWII and becoming the scene for the rise of jet aircraft, the Deux-Ponts became one of the rarest planes in the world when it was active. This aircraft was among the first large aircraft built in France following the Second World War.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Elvis first jet: The Lisa Marie Convair 880 Elvis Presley purchased his first personal plane in 1975. It was a Convair 880 that had been flying for Delta Air Lines for 15 years as a passenger jet. Seeing a good opportunity, he bought an Aero Jet Commander on August 15, but it wasnt for the purposes of flying. million today.

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Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

The tail number caught my ear as familiar and when the mental gears finally meshed enough to process that it spelled out "Tiger", I realized that I was hearing Bruno from Fly with Bruno who was out doing what Bruno does. I exited the terminal parking lot and walked east toward the hangar housing the museum. Delaware River.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2025

Adam Estes) As the 1980s approached, the aircraft itself was nearly 40 years old at a time when business jets became more affordable for companies such as Union 76 to purchase or charter for their purposes. Douglas DC-3 N760 “Spirit of Seventy Six” at the Flight Path Museum and Learning Center, Los Angeles International Airport.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 17, 2025

Little-known to many, the Pirate was not as successful as its designers may have hoped for, but it still marked the first jet aircraft built and flown by Vought Aircraft, and the first aircraft built by the company after it moved from Stratford, Connecticut, to Dallas, Texas. The aircraft was armed with 4 × 20 mm (0.79

Horizontal Stabilizer

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 24, 2025

The aircraft had also been repaired following a hard landing on the water, which resulted in the tail breaking and hanging down from the fuselage. This is also why Prévost came first despite Garros having a faster average of 92 km/h (57 mph). The Planes of Fame installed the Deperdussin, Curtiss R3C-2, and Macchi M.39

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 26, 2025

Although I had hoped to visit the storage hangars to view the aircraft held in storage and those listed for disposal, this wasn’t possible on this occasion. MF628 has been moved to the main display hangars and fully assembled as of April 2023. Since then, the superb Vickers Wellington Mk.X The Handley Page Hampden TB.1

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AV Web

JULY 14, 2025

Read More » Featured video Multimedia Multimedia Best Of The Web: The Summit Of Aviation If youve ever wondered how much Jet A it takes to stage a G7 Summit, its, well, a lot. Read More » Latest Aircraft For Sale Listing Cessna 172 Skyhawk This Cessna 172 has been "in the family" and hangar kept for the last 20 years.

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Flyertalk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Delta Air Lines says the incident caused the tail of the smaller regional aircraft to be sheared off after colliding with an Airbus A350 bound for Japan. Collision Happens as Smaller Jet Rolls on Adjacent Taxiway According to the airline, the incident took place around 10:00 a.m. There were no injuries aboard either flight.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

On this day in aviation history, January 9, 1943, a large four engine transport aircraft with three tail fins rose from the runway at Burbank Airport, California. The tail was the most distinctive part of the Connie’s design. Navy PO-1W Warning Star early warning radar aircraft.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This was one of the few aircraft that combined both a piston engine and a jet engine in the same airframe. Yet although it was designed to combat the limitations of early jet propulsion, it would be quickly superseded by new pure-jet aircraft and became one of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s last fixed wing designs to be built.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

During the early years of the jet age, between the end of World War II and the swinging ’60s, there were very few new ideas that were not worth a try. To understand the genesis of this little jet-powered hot rod, let’s understand the problem that faced the U.S. Air Force immediately following WWII.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Patrick Mihalek grew up near the Brighton Airport in Michigan, spending his after-school hours at the hangars, trying to involve himself in any way possible. One particularly notable student, Logan Kucharek, who had joined the project at age 13, eventually became a lead engineer at a jet engine company. Click HERE to donate.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

One of the latest of these is a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, an example of the first American fighter jet to see operational service. The Shooting Star also helps round out the museum’s collection of American jet fighters, from the Bell P-59 Airacomet to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.

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Vintage Aviation News

MAY 4, 2024

PRESS RELEASE via Royal Navy A retired Sea Harrier jump jet and Lynx helicopter are being transferred to the South Atlantic as islanders create an exhibition dedicated to the men and women who liberated the Falklands from Argentine rule in 1982.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The tail section, minus horizontal stabilizer, came from a crashed TF-104G that was found in an Ontario, California junkyard. ” In August the Starfighter was gently loaded onto a flatbed and trucked to Browning’s hangar in Idaho Falls where the J79 was installed. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A standard 150, equipped with a Land-O-Matic gear, 40-degree Para-Lift flaps, two seats, a straight tail, and powered by a 100 hp Continental O-200 engine fit the bill for many, especially those who did not want to deal with the 150s trickier tailwheel predecessors, the Cessna 120 and 140. They asked] how did you get your jet into St.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a result, the city has become a hub for business aviation, with a high volume of private jets and other business aircraft visiting each year. During peak hours (0900-2200 LCL) GA aircraft are limited to one movement per tail number (one arrival or one departure), and no quick turns are allowed. Here’s everything you need to know.

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 29, 2024

While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis. FBOs and Hangarage While hangars are available for transient business aircraft, space is limited, with availability on a first-come basis. EINN is located 14 miles from the nearest major town, Limerick.

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Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

I don’t which part irks me more: the boring typeface, the blank bottom, or the tail emblem, which is a neutered version of the one it replaces. Then we have the tail. GRADE: D-minus MINTY FRESH JetBlues livery features a grab bag of different tail patterns. Where do we start? Do we have any idea what this means?

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Located on the northwest edge of Rogers Dry Lake, the complex was originally centered around the administrative hangar building constructed in 1954. One of the most notable structures is the space shuttle program’s Mate-Demate Device and hangar, located in Area A to the north of the main complex.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

READ MORE: There Was Just Something About Michael So, next time you fly and shut down near the hangar, throttle way back to idle and briefly turn the switch to “off” and then back to “both.” The experience went even further south when, tailed into the open hangar, she fired up the 172 with a roar and blew everything all over the place.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 5, 2024

During a subsequent two-day time period the MBCC staff reassembled the Prone Meteor, before moving into Hangar 2 on NAM’s Southfield Site. The one-of-a-kind jet is carefully unloaded at its new home. The tailfin was modified with additional area forward of tail plane, with a Meteor NF Mk.12-type

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Flying Magazine

MAY 29, 2025

The Aerostar is the product of famed aircraft designer Ted Smith, whose name is attached to such classics as the A-20 twin-engine bomber and the Twin and Jet Commander lines. But when it all comes together, its an impressively capable go-places machine with a flying experience more like a small jet than a light piston twin.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming Air Facts Journal Second Lieutenant Arnold Reiner Marine Corps recruitment brochures in the early ’60s described three pilot training pipelines: jets, transports and helicopters. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

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