It is over a year since Warbirds Online visited the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) Parkes NSW Aviation Museum and storage facility. We recently returned to assist with the activities at both Parkes sites. HARS runs regular working parties to assist in growing the Museum at the Parkes airport and manage the storage facility at […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently travelled to HARS Parkes Aviation Museum, NSW to view the newly arrived ex RAAF Lockheed Neptune A89-302 5021 P-2E (built as P2V-4 133640 but modified on the production line to approximate a P2V-5 ) previously RAAF serial A89-595. This aircraft is extremely historic being the oldest surviving RAAF Neptune and the only […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently visited the Luftfahrt Museum Laatzen, the Museum of Aeronautical History in Laatzen-Hannover, Germany. The Museum is located in an industrial estate near Hannover in Germany and was a surprising and interesting collection of aircraft and aviation related exhibits – there are 4,500 exhibits located in 3,500 m² of exhibition space. The Museum […]
Aviation Museums, Cold War, Fighter Aircraft, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online attended the Temora Aviation Museum’s (TAM) Warbirds Downunder Airshow 2018 on October 12 – October 13, which again was a spectacular success. With a great line up of Warbirds in attendance, the Warbirds on display were high on quality and quantity, with only a couple of no shows due to unserviceability. Coupled with […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online visited Scone, NSW in October 2018 to view the progress on the restoration by Vintage Fighter Restorations (VFR), a division of Pay’s Air Service, on two Mk IX Supermarine Spitfires, MH603 and MH415. We last reported on these aircraft in March 2018 and in the last few months significant progress has been made. MH603 and MH415 […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
At the recent Flying Legends Airshow at Duxford, UK one particularly attractive Warbird, a Fiat CR.42, was on show even though it didn’t participate in the flying program. The Fiat CR.42, actually a Swedish J 11, formerly Fv2542 (J 11 was the Swedish designation for C.R. 42) Serial No. FV 2542, A/c markings F9-10, now […]
Airshows, Fighter Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Warbirds Online recently visited the Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum in Scotland to view restored Supermarine Spitfire, Mk IIA P7540. This aircraft has been under restoration since 1982 when it was recovered from the waters of Loch Doon in Scotland and is a testament to the efforts of the hard working band of volunteers at […]
Aviation Museums, Fighter Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online attended the Shuttleworth Collection evening airshow in the UK on the 14th of July 2018. Held after the Flying Legends airshow, we made a quick 40 minute journey to the Old Warden site just as the evenings display commenced. The show contained a very well balanced representation of the collections aircraft from the […]
Airshows, Aviation Museums, Vintage Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects