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Commercial Aviation Quiz

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Hawaii Mars arrives at BC Aviation Museum

The Martin Mars C-FLYL ‘Hawaii Mars’ water bomber completed its final flight on August 11, 2024, en route to its new home at the British Columbia (BC) Aviation Museum in Victoria.

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Vought Corsair biplane completed

Fifteen years after construction began, the Grand Prairie, Texas-based Vought Heritage Foundation recently completed a reproduction Vought O3U‑3 Corsair floatplane, a type that originally went into US Navy service in the patrol and observation role during 1932.

Historic Aviation Quiz

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Yorkshire Air Museum ‘Hurricane’ honours French night-fighter hero

Elvington’s Yorkshire Air Museum (YAM) has repainted its full-scale Hawker Hurricane replica into a night-fighter scheme to honour Lt Col Yves Mahé, a French pilot that served with 253 Squadron.

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UK museum Mosquito nears restoration completion

Nearly 50 years after one man’s vision set in train a series of international acquisitions, the static restoration of Mosquito FBVI TA122 is approaching completion at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum 

Yak-3 flies to new home

Yakovlev Yak-3UA G-OLEG arrived at Wellesbourne Mountford near Stratford-upon-Avon on 19 July, following its acquisition from Leicestershire-based Cirrus Aircraft UK by Andrew Holman West’s Russian Radials.

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74 ‘Tiger’ Squadron Lightnings in the Far East – the inside story

No 74 ‘Tiger’ Squadron had many firsts to its name during the Lightning era. When it flew its Lightning F6s to a new home at RAF Tengah in Singapore, it made the type’s longest deployment to date — and some memorable years in the Far East were to follow 

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UK2000 Aberdeen & Carlisle

SCENERY REVIEW FOR MSFS 2020. Two airports in the north from the renowned scenery makers.

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RAF F-35s on QRA in Iceland

The Royal Air Force’s F-35B Lightning is currently holding NATO Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) in Iceland.