Warbirds Online recently travelled to Pays Air Service at Scone, NSW to follow up recent developments with their historic collection of Warbirds. Sadly, Col Pay, the founder of the collection passed away in an accident in December 2007. Since that time the oversight of the legacy passed to Col’s son, Ross who has a real […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Pioneer Aero in New Zealand are making good progress on their Warbird aircraft restorations. I recently revisited them at their facilities at Ardmore Airfield near Auckland, New Zealand to review the current Warbird restoration projects underway. The first thing that I saw was a Curtiss P40E model that was in the fuselage jig being re […]
Historic Aircraft, NZ Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects
Glyn Powell has recently been reorganizing and preparing to take on the next phase in the de Havilland Mosquito restoration work at his Drury Hills base, near Auckland New Zealand. At the time of our visit in January 2014, work was about to commence on the construction of two fuselages with each likely to take […]
NZ Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Classics of the Sky Tauranga City airshow is one of the larger and more diverse of New Zealand’s program of Warbird and mixed aviation events. The airshow is organized by Classic Flyers NZ and is held every two years, with this years event held on the 25th and 26th of January 2014. Classic Flyers NZ is supported by […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft, NZ Warbirds
During the month of December Warbirds Online featured the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) Boomerang aircraft its history and news on restoration projects currently underway in Australia. There could be no more suitable aircraft to be celebrated in this way. As a part of our ‘special feature’ on the CAC Boomerang we shared a number of videos and have consolidated four of […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird videos, Warbirds
I recently reviewed the book Airframe Album No. 1 – The Heinkel He 219 ‘Uhu’: A Detailed Guide to the Luftwaffe’s Ultimate Nightfighter (Airframe Album). This title is the first in a series of detailed profile style books of famous aircraft, the two other titles being on the Hawker Sea Fury and the CAC Boomerang. […]
Historic Aircraft, Warbird Books, Warbirds
Antonov An-2 VH-CCE was manufactured in Poland in 1989 and was eventually purchased some years ago by the late Barry Hemple and operated out of Archerfield, Queensland (Qld) on joy flights and as an airshow performer. The An-2 was sold to the current owner Saario Holdings Pty Ltd Runcorn, Qld following Barry’s controversial death in […]
Historic Aircraft