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APRIL 3, 2025

headquartered at Kennedy Space Center operates the only commercial fleet of aircraft capable of flying at sustained MACH 2 and launching payloads at altitude. Starfighters Space Inc.

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Payload Hangar Pilot 131

Simple Flying

APRIL 1, 2025

Media outlets have also reported that the airports runway is too short for the aircraft to operate with a full payload. Only after ordering the jet was it discovered that the Bombardier Global 7500 does NOT fit into the existing building in Bern-Belp - the airport where the Swiss Federal Council would typically store such an aircraft.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

An aircraft hangar can hold many secrets. Tucked alongside the wall of the “big” hangar at the National Warplane Museum (NWM), in Geneseo, New York is one such example of a tale that deserves to be written and subsequently read. They wanted it to have double the payload of their current bomber, the Martin B-10.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In one of the display hangars, they came upon the Aluminum Overcast. The Peacemaker was the only American aircraft with the range and payload to carry atomic bombs from American soil to the USSR. In 1983, at the age of 5, he and his father took a trip to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, in Dayton, Ohio.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Payload Tail 105

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Coronados wrecked the airfield and destroyed hangars, aircraft, barracks, mess halls, fuel dumps, and communication equipment, as well as the motor torpedo boats Guroaitei No. 5 and Guroaitei No. The wingtip floats of the Coronado retracted to form the wingtips of the aircraft, as this evocative head-on shot shows.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Final Approach Tail Runway 111

NYC Aviation

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tuesday evening saw a significant milestone in Northern Pacific Airways’ path to launch, as they unveiled their first aircraft at a paint hangar in San Bernardino, California.

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Payload Cargo Airplanes Tail 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

I also departed with the minimum amount of fuel I was comfortable with (airlines use this strategy to increase performance and/or increase payload capacity). Hangar space is sometimes available for under $50/night – a nice option if storms are expected. Our family of four packed less than 50 pounds of luggage.

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