Much progress is being made on the new Hunter Warbirds museum at Scone Airport NSW. Since our last news article “Warbird Aviation Attraction Scone NSW “in January 2021, the progress has been substantial, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The groundworks and layout of utilities was conducted to facilitate the laying of the huge […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, CAC Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently journeyed to the NSW country city of Dubbo to visit one of the most skilled metal workers we have ever seen. Mark Nugent is a highly trained coachbuilder with an excellent reputation for high quality work. Interestingly Mark works in the fields of Motor Vehicle restoration and Aircraft restoration. Although it is […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
In our series on current operational Warbirds in Australia we look at another P40, P-40N-5-CU C/N 28748 USAAC tail No 42-104986 of the 49th Fighter Group, 8th Fighter Squadron. This Warbird was produced from a 1942 contract by Curtiss aircraft at Buffalo, New York in mid-1943 and upon delivery to the United States Army Air […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Over the past few months the team at Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR) at Scone NSW has been working on and conducting maintenance on several of the Pay’s fleet of Warbirds and this provides an opportunity to view interesting detail of some of the Warbirds internals that is rarely able to be seen. Curtiss P-40E 41-25109 (RAF […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Robert Grienert has recently completed the restoration of a Curtiss P40E Kittyhawk, tail number 41-25163, for the Pima Air and Space Museum of Tucson, Arizona USA. The aircraft is a composite restoration utilizing components from several sources. The aircraft fuselage was built at Wangaratta by Precision Aerospace and then completed along with its Alaskan wings […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Curtiss P-40E 41-25109 (RAF serial ET433) was the second of two P40 aircraft acquired by the late Col Pay. The first being P40E Hawk 87A-3 c/n 15133 AK752 / VH-KTH. Upon the sale of VH-KTH in 1994, P-40E 41-25109 was acquired from Mike Subritzky, Auckland-Dairy Flat, New Zealand (NZ) who had owned the aircraft since 1991. […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Australia is home to a very unique Curtiss P40 aircraft – the only flying genuine P40F Merlin engine derivative of the famous P40 Hawk series of fighters. Owned and operated by Judy Pay of Tyabb Victoria the aircraft is P-40F-1-CU “Pee Wee” Serial Number 41-14112 Nose 106, built by Curtiss in Buffalo, New York during […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Col Pay was a visionary in the Australian Warbird movement long before Warbirds were common place in Australia, with a string of firsts including his CAC Mustang and the first Warbird Spitfire in the country. Another of his firsts was the first Curtiss P-40 Warbird in Australia. The P-40 was arguably the most significant fighter […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects